"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."

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Minna Antrim

#Compliment Quotes #Latter Quotes

“You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.”
“Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...”
“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other thingsâ€”like talkingâ€”everything got so complicated.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.499, Delacorte Press
“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.166
“Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.”
“The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
“It's better to be wise than to be smart.”
“The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...”

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