Quotes About Oblige

#1. Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that ...

Susan Napier

#2. In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Will you oblige me then?' His voice was low and smooth, nearly whispered ...
Everything froze for a moment. Even the flickering lamps seemed to pause, flames surging upward and waiting ...
'No.

Anne Mallory

#4. When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige, Syme said.

Matthew Reilly

#5. I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

Ilona Andrews

#6. Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Saadi

#7. No tye can oblige the perfidious.
[No tie can oblige the perfidious.]

George Herbert

#8. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#9. Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

Guy De Rothschild

#10. The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

Sam Harris

#11. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Anthony Liccione

#12. What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

#13. Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

Wanda Landowska

#15. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#16. We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

Alexandre Dumas

#17. Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

Wendy Kaminer

#18. Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

Lauren DeStefano

#19. It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Philip James Bailey

#20. I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?

Rachel Caine

#21. Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways - the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class.

Inazo Nitobe

#22. It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Baron De Montesquieu

#23. I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

Richard Steele

#24. Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

Paulo Coelho

#25. AMENABLE (AME'NABLE) adj.[amesnable, Fr. amener quelqu'un, in the French courts, signifies, to oblige one to appear to answer a charge exhibited against him.]Responsible; subject so as to be liable to enquiries or accounts.

Samuel Johnson

#26. The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.

James Bovard

#27. If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.

Debbie Ford

#28. I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.

Romano Prodi

#29. On rare occasions, I find I have only to think about asking Eli for something - a transition from walk to trot, say, or a change of rhythm within the trot - for him to oblige me. At such moments, I believe that I have finally found my religion. I

Nancy Shulins

#30. Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige.

Janet Evanovich

#31. They are the ships, and you are the wind. You do no lower yourself to their rules or expectations. You blow in whatever direction you feel is needed and leave them with no choice but to oblige.

Elise Kova

#32. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.

Alex Perry

#33. I'm not a trained soldier. I'm a spy. But I am a fighter. But lately I've felt more like a soldier than a spy. And if that's what the world is asking for... I'm happy to oblige.

Nathan Edmondson

#34. He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It

Jane Austen

#35. If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#36. The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

John Podhoretz

#37. Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#38. To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.

Ivan Illich

#39. We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Voltaire

#40. They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.

Stacy Schiff

#41. It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing - whatever it be!

Jane Austen

#42. Each human being has his own sexual identity and should live according to that identity without guilt, provided that he does not oblige others to share it.

Paulo Coelho

#43. Gabriella, you can be whatever you want to be to me. If you want to be with me, be with me. If you want to keep this light and casual, we can do that. If you want me to just keep fucking you senseless every chance I get, I'll be more than happy to oblige.

S.L. Jennings

#44. Aphrodite," [Annabeth] said.
"Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement.
"Mom," Piper said with no enthusiasm.
"Girls!" The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug.
The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.

Rick Riordan

#45. Once upon a time, privacy was valued. For goodness' sake, a disabled president of the United States could ask that the press not photograph him in a wheelchair or being transferred to his car or generally in a weakened state, and the press would oblige. Those were the days.

Julianna Baggott

#46. Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

Henry Fielding

#47. Maybe we're all ongoing stories, defined at various stages of life, or whenever people oblige us to declare ourselves. Fiction is marvelous for studying this, allowing the writer and reader to leap decades in a sentence. No other art lets you bend time as much.

Tom Rachman

#48. It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Seneca The Younger

#49. Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

Alexander Pope

#50. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

Umberto Eco

#51. And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Susan Kay

#52. Q: Why do you blog?
A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.

Ophelia Benson

#53. The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#54. More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Tacitus

#55. When you 'oblige' someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.

Dada Bhagwan

#56. One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Jean De La Fontaine

#57. To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Anthony Trollope

#58. The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.

Steve Maraboli

#59. You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

James Madison

#60. My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

Rainn Wilson

#61. Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension.

William Deresiewicz

#62. Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

James Joyce

#63. According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

Guy De Rothschild

#64. It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

William Godwin

#65. A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

John Foxe

#66. The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#67. You don't want it, but the destiny oblige it

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

#68. Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#69. I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.

John Flanagan

#70. Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

Paulo Coelho

#71. He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

Carl Froch

#72. Parents don't always like to admit that things have changed. They want the world to be exactly the way it was before their children went away on these life-changing adventures, and when the world doesn't oblige, they try to force it into the boxes they build for us.

Seanan McGuire

#73. Talk what you will of the Jews,
that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

John Selden

#74. I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

Tristan Tzara

#75. Obviously, you want me to kiss you. And I'll be happy to oblige, when the time is right. But not yet." "Mr. Hunt, you are the most - " "Yes, I know," he said with a grin. "You may as well spare yourself the effort of hurling adjectives at me, as I've heard them all before.

Lisa Kleypas

#76. As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Thomas Gray

#77. I can see ye're in a mood to be bossy. I suppose since ye're a laird ye must be used to giving orders and having them obeyed. I'll oblige ye this once, but in future, I will continue to question ye.

Eliza Knight

#78. Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#79. But how just it has been! And how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience ...

Daniel Defoe

#80. The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

Henry Knox

#81. To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Baltasar Gracian

#82. There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

H.G.Wells

#83. If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

#84. Great power involves great responsibility

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#85. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Abraham Lincoln

#86. Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

Christopher Hayes

#87. If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

Ron Suskind

#88. The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

Robert Fulghum

#89. As they say, with great power comes great responsibility."
"Are you screwin' with me, man?" Taylor asked bluntly.

David Estes