Doormat Quotes

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  Pablo Picasso

  Women, Artist, Two

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Dirty, Shoes, People

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• I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

  Lucinda Williams

  Trying, Just Being, Looks

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• They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Water, House

  Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1974). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]”

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• The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Science, Religion

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

  William Proxmire

  Home, Shoes, Feet

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• If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Complaining, Behave, Ifs

  Suzette Haden Elgin (1980). “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”, Prentice Hall

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• If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

  Robert Breault

  People, Welcome, Treats

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• Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships.

  Doreen Virtue

  Priorities, Gains, Path

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• You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

  Pablo Picasso

  Goddess

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• I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

  Manisha Koirala

  Men, Mistress, Refuse

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

  Charles Stross

  Labels, Trouble, Polite

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• I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Bits

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• You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sparring Partner, Curls, Would Be

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.405, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

  Manny Montana

  Source: collider.com

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• Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

  Suzy Kassem

  Lying, Arrows, Truth Is

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.

  Anita Moorjani

  Giving, Use, Firsts

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• Celebrities are the doormats to power.

  Greg Gutfeld

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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• If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

  Oscar Wilde

  Want, Firsts, Lays

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• For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

  Pablo Picasso

  Two, Kind, Goddess

  "Henry Robinson Luce" by Briton Hadden, Time, Vol. 93. p. 66, 1969.

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• "Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down the pyramid. "Flat!" Thoth blasted another demon, who collapsed and shriveled into a monster-shaped doormat. "Intestinal problems!" Thoth yelled. The poor demon who got zapped with that one turned green and doubled over.

  Rick Riordan

  Pyramids, Light, Air

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.

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• Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked -" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry."

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Eye, Two

  "The Demigod Diaries". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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