Bootlicking Quotes

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I can’t afford to have my Vice President who knows every reporter in town, go around saying we’re all screwed up, so we’re going to keep him happy. You are dealing with a very insecure, sensitive man with a huge ego. I want you to literally kiss his ass from one end of Washington to the other.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a freeborn Briton can do.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

My ass is big because a lot of people have to kiss it.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Arselicker!

What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

You can pander, but you've got to do it in a way that doesn't seem like pandering.

I think he [President Jimmy Carter]'s around too many people that kiss his ass all the time.

I am not an easel-kisser.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

Many people want to be a part of this industry only because of its glamour. What they have to understand is that it takes hard work to make it big. Imitation and bootlicking won't get you through.