Deferential Quotes (3 quotes)

“Cats don’t have names,” it said.

“No?” said Coraline.

“No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”

There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it were, in its opinion, the only thing in any world or place that could possibly be of any importance.

Half of her wanted to be very rude to it; the other half of her wanted to be polite and deferential. The polite half won.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: cat, cats, coraline, deferential, name, names, polite, rude

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“Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alluring, bashful, chastened-humility, deferential, desirable, diffidence, diffident, hot, humble, humbleness, life, luscious, lush, meek, meekness, modest, modesty, nubile, provocative, respectful, seductive, self-deprecating, self-effacing, sensual, sex, sexy, shy, slinky, subdued, submissive, sultry, tantalizing, tempting, toothsome, turn-off, turn-on, unassertive, unassertiveness, unassuming, unpresuming, voluptuous

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“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: abase, abash, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, beautiful, beauty, boyfriend, boyfriends, chastened, cut-down-to-size, debase, deferential, deflate, degrade, demean, desire, diffident, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, humble, humiliate, humiliation, humor, humour, husband, husbands, joke, jokes, like, love, lower, lust, lust-for, make-eat-crow, make-eat-humble-pie, man, meek, men, modest, mortify, overbearing, proud, respectful, satire, self-deprecating, self-effacing, settle-someone-s-hash, shame, subdued, submissive, take-down-a-peg-or-two, ugliness, ugly, unassertive-unpresuming, unassuming, want, wanted, wife, wives

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