Fine China Quotes

• Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Broken, Reputation, Communicators

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• Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Real, Men, Worship You

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• Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love Is, Secret, Teflon

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• We're not polishing fine china here.

  Bill Belichick

  Fine, China

  Belichick's Q&A with reporters, www.espn.com. January 24, 2015.

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• And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Food, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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