Alacrity Quote by Daniel S Greenberg

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

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

— Denis Healey

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

... 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

“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