Quotes about obliging (12 Quotes)

A fraud is being committed beyond the voting booths, obliging people to vote against their will. An election under these conditions is suspicious.

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

. . . every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

I call'd the devil, and he came And with wonder his form did I closely scan He is not ugly, and is not lame But really a handsome and charming man A man in the prime of life is the devil Obliging, a man of the world, and civil A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate He talks quite glibly of church and state.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman as such we could scarcely dislike her - she was only an Object of Contempt.

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade

I like to feel I can use any piece of equipment that strikes me at the time and I don't want to be overly obliging to any company.

Sometimes, in our thinking about higher education, we're too narrowly confined to a utilitarian calculus about what it's doing to the bottom line of UK plc. I wanted to make the point that higher education adds immeasurably to the value of the UK economy without necessarily obliging everybody to pursue courses that have some immediate vocational application. I wanted to stick up for medieval history, among other things, which was deprecated by Charles Clarke.

They (CSFB) will be at least as obliging as the former management, because one of the ways to judge how well these mergers works is to track how much business is retained.

We hope British citizens will follow it, but we have no way of obliging British citizens to do so,