#flattery

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And if he wants to receive it, he cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#praise #pride #love

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Jack Paar

#form #immigration #sincerest #sincerest form

There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind. ↗

— John Fowles

#intelligence #types-of-intelligence #intelligence

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

— Josh Billings

#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#approval #disapproval #empty #end #exactly

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#corrupts #flattery #giver #receiver

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

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love