#flatterer

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Archie by Dan DeCarlo

[grandpasessions]

The worst thing in the world is a flatterer. With him, you can be sure that at the first opportunity he will strike you a blow, that he will take revenge for having groveled before you. And since he humbles himself before everyone … Flatterers are traitors, without exception. I have always despised them, but I have not been wary enough of them. Unfortunately, we tolerate one who compliments us better than someone who tells us true, and therefore unpleasant, things about ourselves. Thus, it is we ourselves who favor, who encourage our worst enemies. The man we could kill without regret: A “friend” who flattered you every time and who abandoned you for some unknown reason.

Notebooks Emil Cioran

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Sycophant

Sycophant originates from Greek sykophantes(informer). The word combines "sykon"(fig) and "phainein"(to show). It entered English in the 16th century.

[j-august]

There were many flatterers at her court, and many treacherous and envious men, such as take pains to blame and disparage all who are better loved than they. In the beginning, these flatterers praise men in order to delude them, and ingratiate themselves with everyone, but their flatteries stab men in the back and touch the bone, so that through their deceitful compliments they cause many who should be intimate there to be ostracized and banished from the court. May such envious flatterers come to a bad end, for no good man loves them.

The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (tr. Frances Horgan).

[goditsmeagain]

why i follow u: ♥️🧡💛💚❤️‍🔥💙💜💗

stop it you 🤭

[leviathans-watching]

[agirlwithadiary]

To be a witch, you have to fall in love with Sam Winchester. Them's the rules 😂

😂

[rottenadvicecolumn]

Holy crap Robbie, you sass master! 😂 Alright, here’s a question: how does one achieve that level of sass, bc I aspire to snark like so some day?

Dear Sass,

What people forget to do when trying to be Sass Masters is preparing a Back Log. Read a snarky line online? Memorize it. Fantasize what situations YOU could use it in. Someone say a good line to you? Memorize that too.

(plagiarism isn’t illegal if it makes someone laugh)

You can also just think about conversations you’re likely to have. Try and come up with what you could say to really get their goat. Showers were invented because they give you an excuse to stand somewhere for a long time and imagine fake conversations. 

To sum up, create a backlog of Things To Say When. Throw out what doesn’t work, keep what does, never forget them. Have a bad memory? Make a Sass Journal. Your Sass Script, if you will. 

Do all this and One Day, the Sass will come to YOU.