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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
— Dalton Trumbo
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
— Arthur Balfour
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
— Josh Billings
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
— Thomas A Kempis
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
— George Sarton
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
— Austin O'Malley
And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call maturity.
— Paulo Coelho
The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
— Edouard Manet
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
— Sojourner Truth
Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
— Roger L'Estrange
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
— Mary Douglas
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.
— John Keats
I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.
— Red Faber
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
— Emile Durkheim
Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.
— Mary Karr
To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every
— L.M. Montgomery
So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase ... I merely obliged her by running.
— D.D. Chant
We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.
— Luke The Evangelist
It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
— James Cash Penney
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They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.
— Isaac Newton
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
— Georgette Heyer
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
— Marcel Proust
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
— Samuel Johnson
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Kavad himself, if obliged to fight on a Jewish holy day, had been known to request his adversaries for a temporary truce.
— Tom Holland
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
— Annie Lennox
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.
— Isabel Paterson
We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.
— Taite Adams
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
— Anna Quindlen
Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.
— Samuel Beckett
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.
— Henry Walter Bates
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.
— Claire Denis
Jasper to her. I was obliged
— Henry James
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
— Robert Purvis
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence ... on pain of liquidation
— George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
— Tryon Edwards
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
— Alexander Pope
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
— Stephen J. Field
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
— William Penn
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life,
— James Davison Hunter
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.
— Sydney, Lady Morgan
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
— Christopher Hitchens
Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.
— Julia Kristeva
It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.
— Carol Anne Dobson
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
— Charlaine Harris
Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
— Claire Tomalin
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
— Samuel Butler
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
— Charles Lamb
Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.
— W. H. Auden
There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.
— Samuel Beckett
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
— Stonewall Jackson
The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.
— Julian Fellowes
Voltaire argued that if God did not exist Man would be obliged to invent him, and was reviled for the remark.
— Carl Sagan
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
— James Bovard
Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.
— Rebecca Solnit
The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.
— Agatha Christie
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
— Harry Frankfurt
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.
— Virginia Cary Hudson
Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.
— Robert Stacy McCain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
— Mark Twain
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
— Henry David Thoreau
