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Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation. — James Lileks

He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ... — Philip Kerr

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A.A. Milne

There was no better way to feel powerful than to make others feel powerless. — Chris Dietzel

Every girl needs to shine once in a while. — Kiera Cass

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

Well, 'I'm sorry' is just a thing to say, you see. I'm trying not to be so apologetic and obsequious all the time. It's just such a habit ... — Maya Rodale

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead! — William Shakespeare

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing ... — Thomas A. Edison

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one. — Auberon Waugh

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. — Juvenal

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. — S.E. Hinton

We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious - to machines. — Mark Helprin

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

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination. — Samuel Johnson

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me. — Bill Henson

obsequious courting of the mob — Marcus Aurelius

You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is. — Spencer Tracy

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. — Silvia Tennenbaum

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off. — Carl Sagan

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. — Walter Raleigh