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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. -- Alexander Pope
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. -- James Joyce
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. -- Baltasar Gracian
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. -- Voltaire
My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige. -- Rainn Wilson
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. -- Richard Steele
The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't. -- John Podhoretz
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. -- H. G. Wells
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. -- James Madison
The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good. -- Henry Knox
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. -- Alexander Hamilton
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. -- John Foxe
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.] -- George Herbert
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. -- Guy de Rothschild
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. -- Ivan Illich
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me? -- Thomas Gray
Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying. -- Anthony Liccione
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. -- Baron de Montesquieu
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense. -- Tacitus
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself. -- Jean de La Fontaine
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me -- Richard Steele
If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige. -- Debbie Ford
Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. -- Wendy Kaminer
Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! -- Susan Kay
In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. -- Abraham Lincoln
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude. -- Alexandre Dumas
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. -- Philip James Bailey
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself. -- Anthony Trollope
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred. -- Seneca the Younger
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. -- Wanda Landowska
I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige. -- Ilona Andrews
Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him. -- Paulo Coelho
We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others. -- Scott Sanders
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. -- Karl Kraus
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable. -- Marcel Proust
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.' -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige. -- Janet Evanovich
I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige. -- John Flanagan
Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them. -- Saadi

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