#flattery

There are so many people out there who would love for you to act in a manner that flatters and suits them the best, instead of loving you for who you really are. ↗

— POB Bismark

#change #flattery #real #unpretentious #change

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#advice #caring #caring-for-others #companion #constructive-criticism

I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand. ↗

— Vicktor Alexander

#flattery #funny #funny

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#love #self-esteem #love

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

— Josh Billings

#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#ask #cases #flattery #nine #out

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

— Theophrastus

#base #companionship #define #flatterer #flattery

Do you know what that’s like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me. ↗

— Brynna Gabrielson

#life

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#contracts #criticism #flattery #goes #head