Sylvia Day Quotes

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

There's a thing called game, and when you're out and you're trying to push up on a female and you're going, "Yo, I want to be your knight in shining armor," chances are you're going to get a drink on your face.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Love fattens on smooth words.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.