Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“Don’t 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: you’ve got to know your place.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“BOSWELL. “I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as sensibly as many say they do.” JOHNSON. “Sir, don’t 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 (1709–1784)

“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)