Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“We are all very ready to believe what we like.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to the encounter. Apparently writing without a particular design or responsibility, setting down his soliloquies from time to time, taking advantage of all his humors, when at length the hour comes to declare himself, he puts down in plain English, without quotation marks, what he, Thomas Carlyle, is ready to defend in the face of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)