Top 29 Obsequious Quotes
#1. 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and ... obsequious.
Matt Groening
#2. We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.
Neil Innes
#3. How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!
William Shakespeare
#4. Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
Samuel Johnson
#5. Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical - yes, or more obsequious! - than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch
Sinclair Lewis
#6. I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of those timid, obsequious, teacup-passing, thin-bread- and-butter-offering, yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight.
P.G. Wodehouse
#7. So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning
John Walter Bratton
#8. Liege," I said deferentially. "She's more obsequious to you than she ever has been to me," Ethan observed with a tilted eyebrow. "Better leadership skills," Malik said with a smile,
Chloe Neill
#10. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Walter Raleigh
#11. Well, 'I'm sorry' is just a thing to say, you see. I'm trying not to be so apologetic and obsequious all the time. It's just such a habit ...
Maya Rodale
#12. He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
Philip Kerr
#13. Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. It is a detestable vice not entirely limited to children. Always speak the truth, all the truth in all things at all times! No man ever rose to greatness on the wings of obsequious deceit.
Rick Yancey
#16. Grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.
Silvia Tennenbaum
#17. Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving
#18. We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious - to machines.
Mark Helprin
#19. You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.
Denise Mina
#20. You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves.
William Shakespeare
#21. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#23. Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
Yuri Manin
#24. When feeling badly about ourselves, we often try on other skins rather than understand and care for our own.
Mark Nepo
#25. America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.
Rudy Giuliani
#26. Space is created by the interaction of individual quanta of gravity.
Carlo Rovelli
#28. This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?
Tori Amos
#29. He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets.
Marie Lu
