Obsequious Quotes

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. - Neil Innes

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. - Washington Irving

He prefers that slightly obsequious role in which we appear like the Edwardian retainer in Washington... What have we actually got out of the US administration [in return for supporting the war in Iraq]? Forms of words that occasionally weren't as bad as they might have been. - Lord Patten Of Barnes