Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image… — Barbara Steele
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer… — Heinrich Heine
O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is a very pretty… — Marjorie Fleming
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. — Sojourner Truth
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged… — Benjamin Franklin
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen… — Peter Stuyvesant
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. — Alexander Pope
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. — Roland Barthes
[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — Michel Foucault
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we… — William Bligh
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, — Daniel Dennett
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their… — E.C. Riegel
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten… — George Crook
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. — Marilyn Hacker
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever… — St. Catherine of Siena
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. — Mark Strand
Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you. — Robert Stacy McCain
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. — Benjamin Franklin
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes… — Alexis de Tocqueville
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own… — Francois Truffaut
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State. — Moshe Dayan
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he… — Joshua Reynolds
In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to… — Vincent de Paul

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