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. BucchianeriTag: wisdom truth friend friendship friends advice true-love people human-nature criticism christian flattery catholic caring catholic-author true-friends companion gadfly acquaintances tough-love wise-sayings caring-for-others constructive-criticism hard-truths
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
Leo TolstoyTag: love sun admiration tolstoy flattery anna-karenina gaze avoiding stare
I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand.
Vicktor AlexanderThen, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.
C.S. PacatTag: fantasy flattery m-m-romance eyelashes
baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flatter so thin we like it.
Monsignor Fulton J. SheenTag: humor flattery compliment baloney blarney
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Walter Savage LandorTag: kindness cats sincerity flattery
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 WollstonecraftTag: strength happiness empowerment equality gender men women feminism weakness self-determination misogyny hypocrisy inequality independence stereotypes flattery double-standards clichés dignity inferiority social-norms women-s-rights contempt
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
Criss JamiTag: truth honesty friendship friends lies writing opinions philosophy christianity god work goodness enemies facts theology flattery apologetics fabrications pretense real holiness fake foes greater-good flatter fabrication
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
Criss JamiTag: love knowledge music compassion peace singing news culture propaganda gossip flattery pity trends tension popular-culture pop-culture popular pop fads bandwagon autotune pop-music popular-music
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries ShahTag: wisdom money power flattery wise-man
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