Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I… — Robert Crais
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their… — Milan Kundera
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for… — Georgette Heyer
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with… — Patrick O'Brian
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him… — P.G. Wodehouse
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's… — Nora Roberts
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and… — Jane Austen
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his… — Flannery O'Connor
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or… — Michael Chabon
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. — Carl Sagan
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. — Marcel Proust
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction — Paulo Coelho
Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?â€ He levels angry blue eyes on me. â€œYouâ€™re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju,… — Ann Aguirre
But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have… — William Goldman
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding — Beatrix Potter
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor… — John Adams
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be,… — E. M. Forster
But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you… — Trenton Lee Stewart

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