Famous quotes containing the word ready:
“Dont be so ready to defy everybody. Act as if you expected to have your own way, not as if you expected to be ordered about. The way to get on as a lady is the same as the way to get on as a servant: youve got to know your place.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“BOSWELL. I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as sensibly as many say they do. JOHNSON. Sir, dont be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“You are all alike, you respectable people. You cant tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter; but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You darent handle high explosives; but youre all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)