Sharon Stone Quotes

A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.