All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter read more

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may read more

If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed with trees
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who read more

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he read more

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.