#flattery

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

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

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

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#flattery #got #into #me #particularly

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

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

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#first #flattery #more #none #proud

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#inhale #long #right #you