lickspittles

Updated: June 15, 2025

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George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

‘Then you don’t deny that we have had a Priestley,’ said I, ‘and admit the possibility of our having another? You were lately observing that all English literary men were sycophants?’ ‘Lickspittles,’ said the man in black; ‘yes, I admit that you have had a Priestley, but he was a Dissenter of the old class; you have had him, and perhaps may have another.’

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

What chance of knowing facts or of living a wholesome life had a man shut off thus from all but lickspittles and slaves? No wonder that the victims of such dignity beat the sea with rods, when it was rude enough to wreck their ships! No wonder that they wallowed in sensuality, and lost pith and manhood! No wonder that Greece crushed their unwieldy armies and fleets!

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra,: and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

As for literature in general,’ said he, ‘the Santa Sede is not particularly partial to it, it may be employed both ways. In Italy, in particular, it has discovered that literary men are not always disposed to be lickspittles.’ ‘For example, Dante,’ said I.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Nobody carrieth gold in his mouth. Still more repugnant unto me, however, are all lickspittles; and the most repugnant animal of man that I found, did I christen "parasite": it would not love, and would yet live by love. Unhappy do I call all those who have only one choice: either to become evil beasts, or evil beast-tamers. Amongst such would I not build my tabernacle.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none

‘Yes,’ said the man in black, ‘a dangerous personage; that poem of his cuts both ways; and then there was Pulci, that Morgante of his cuts both ways, or rather one way, and that sheer against us; and then there was Aretino, who dealt so hard with the poveri frati; all writers, at least Italian ones, are not lickspittles.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

But then there was Cervantes, starving, but straight; he deals us some hard knocks in that second part of his Quixote. Then there were some of the writers of the picaresque novels. No, all literary men are not lickspittles, whether in Italy or Spain, or, indeed, upon the Continent; it is only in England that all—’ ‘Come,’ said I, ‘mind what you are about to say of English literary men.’

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

As far as I can see, you cannot speak Russian correctly yourself: why, then, do you spy on others? I have not yet forgotten that it was on account of my tobacco that you recognized I was a Zhid, too." "O, that is all very simple," said he. "I never saw such lickspittles as the Jews are. They are always ready to oblige others with their favors and refuse honors due to themselves.

Jehudah Steinberg - In Those Days : The Story of an Old Man