Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a…

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something…

— Samuel Johnson

The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and…

— Michael Collier

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

— Ambrose Bierce

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to…

— Daniel S Greenberg

“When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the…

— Samuel Johnson

If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look…

— Hermann Hesse

By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise,…

— Alexander Hamilton

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity…

— Ann Zwinger

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I…

— George Eliot

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in…

— Alexander Pope

I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and…

— Anonymous