Brown-Nosing 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.

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

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

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

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

The AICC is full of sycophants, nothing else.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

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've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

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

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

I am not an easel-kisser.

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

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.