Obliged

Famous quotes containing the word obliged:

““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 (1815–1882)

“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)

“Art has always been this—pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric—whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)