Mollycoddling Quotes & Sayings

He did not look at Mrs Weasley. He had been touched by what she had said about his being as good as a son, but he was also impatient with her mollycoddling. Sirius was right, he was not a child. — J.K. Rowling

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. — Victor Hugo

If he wants to be my Peter Pan, I won't think twice about running away to Neverland or anywhere with him, just as long as it's far away from here. — Alexandria Bishop

I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work. — Donald Rumsfeld

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. — Plautus

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed. — Rowan Williams

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma. — Tina Charles

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts. — Margaret Bourke-White

Mollycoddling was the mother's duty; the father's lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love the professed to feel, had they been asked and had they answered truthfully or even had access to the truth, was of a duty-bound, obligatory kind too, a love issuing from commandment and tradition and the notion of family, not one from the tides of the heart or the unbridled, inexplicable pull of feelings. If painted, that love would take the form of a polite and manicured wash of pleasant colours, not the hurl-and-splatter of impastoed reds. — Neel Mukherjee

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth. — Felix Wantang