Obliging Quotes

We may not always oblige, but we may always speak obligingly. - Voltaire

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

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. - Voltaire

They smile and then they stab - and they think the next time they come along for a comment you are going to forget the wounding things they write and obligingly talk to them [on the press]. - Geoff Boycott

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. - Richard Herring

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. - Boris Johnson

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. - Harry Potter

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. - George Savile

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. - Amos Oz