Such a set of tittle tattle, prittle prattle visitants! Oh Dear! I am so sick of the ceremony and fuss of these fall lall people! ...So much dressing--chitchat--complimentary nonsense--In short, a country town is my detestation. All the conversation is scandal, all the attention, dress, and almost all the heart, folly, envy, and censoriousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she ...was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is ..."different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together l...ike jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »