Obliged

Famous quotes containing the word obliged:

“My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that “Carpe Diem” is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds—for who can trust to tomorrow?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

““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)

“True love never goes without respect; and its counterfeit is often obliged to feign it, till an occasion serves to throw it out of the windows.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 211 (April 1803)