Famous quotes containing the word obliged:
“I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.”
—Richard Steele (16721729)
“Of course we all know that you are a gentleman.
I am much obliged to you; but I do not know any word that requires a definition so much as that.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing itnamely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)