I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
Paul Ryan has become a doormat. . . And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
Celebrities are the doormats to power.
The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.
I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
You're either a goddess. . . or a doormat.
If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.
