Quotes About Obliged

Some of the feudal services were peculiar. A Kentishman was required to "hold the king's head in the boat" when he should cross the Channel. Even more peculiar was the case of a certain vassal obliged every Christmas to make before his lord unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum ("a leap, whistle, and an audible gaseous expulsion").

Down the hall, third door to your left.' 'Much obliged,' she said sarcastically, noticing that there was nothing but air beyond the railing to her right—as if the core of the house was one huge, open space.

How pleasant is Saturday night, When I've tried all the week to be good, And not spoke a word that was bad, And obliged everyone that I could.

The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').

I have almost never embellished in order to bring myself any advantage; it was rather that I had a strangulating fear of that cataclysmic change in the atmosphere the instant the flow of a conversation flagged, and even when I knew that it would later turn to my disadvantage, I frequently felt obliged to add, almost inadvertently, my word of embellishment, out of a desire to please born of my usual desperate mania for service.

Scandal is a community service and a free entertainment at that; witnesses generally feel obliged to pay admission with sympathy.