Complaisant Quotes

#1. The age of the book is almost gone.

George Steiner

#2. [While] disappointment and failure aren't identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God's best for our lives.

Billy Graham

#3. Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed.

Michael Hirst

#4. People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.

Donald Trump

#5. Only a person without principles can be so complaisant towards grief.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Moliere

#7. Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas!

Donald Wildmon

#8. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

Doug Stanhope

#9. Poetry by its very nature is subversive ... It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.

Cristina Garcia

#10. New Zealanders remain polite,hard-working, superficially cheerful, and unnervingly compliant and complaisant. And we remain dismissive of anyone who makes a fuss about anything

Gordon William McLauchlan

#11. A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Michel De Montaigne