Top 18 Quotes About Obsequiousness
#1. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
Jane Austen
#2. Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.
Larry King
#3. [Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#4. The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action.
John Pilger
#5. Driving, Lambright thought the moon looked like a fingerprint of chalk.
Elizabeth Strout
#6. Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
Oscar Wilde
#8. I thought love was supposed to be blind, not deaf, too.
Debbie Mason
#9. Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.
Marlene Steinberg
#10. You know how funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they're for the uncommitted.
Bill Murray
#11. But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
Bea Arthur
#12. on the other hand, is anything for which less is preferred to more. For Homer, much like most people, work is
Joshua Hall
#13. When product performance outstrips the ability of customers to use that performance in an industry, the competitive game changes. Under those circumstances you have to decouple components businesses from assembly businesses.
Clayton Christensen
#15. The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Ray Bradbury
#16. Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
Francine Rivers
#17. I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.
John Cleese
#18. The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
Dallas Willard
