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Quotes About Doting

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
~ Plutarch
She knew that doting on the dream made the pain worse, but she could not stop herself.
~ Kate Williams
Without a doubt, my daughter loves daddy more, because he pampers her way too much.
~ Zhao Wei
To be honest, I don't love the getting-ready-for-red-carpet thing. I like when it's done, the final product, but the actual doing of all that is not my favorite 'cause I'm kind of impatient, and I don't like to be doted on. I'm a very independent, 'I'll do it myself' sort of personality.
~ Amber Stevens
I definitely want to be a doting grandmother. I love babies. My colleagues will tell you if I'm in an arena and there's a baby in my vicinity I'm holding that baby.
~ Doris Burke
if some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid.
~ Herman Melville
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.
~ Jeremy Collier
So it is customary to see in a mother's ideals and intensity of ambition what is carried out by one or another of her children. According to biographers, the source of success appears to lie in a mother's doting—or in her neglectful selfishness, which forces an offspring out on its own.
~ James Hillman
He was, besides, the child of a doting grandmother, whose too solicitous attention to him soon taught him a sort of diffidence in himself, with a disposition to overrate his own importance, which is one of the very worst consequences that children deduce from over-indulgence.
~ Walter Scott
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
~ John Dryden
God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father.
~ Philip Yancey