The World Motivation
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
“There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.”
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.