DUTY QUOTES IV

quotations about duty

DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

HOSEA BALLOU

Edge-Tools of Speech


Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World


The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

C. W. LEADBEATER

The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals


Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best:
They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

HENRY ABBEY

"The Roman Sentinel"


A man who does his duty because it is the custom, like the man who abstains because of other men's opinions and practices, simply reflects what exists around him--it is not his own duteous act or virtue; it lies on the surface, it has not penetrated his soul.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

JOHN FOWLES

The Magus


What chastity is to woman, duty is to man, the willingly assumed burden of their kind.

JANICE MANNING & MARSHALL MASTERS

The Kolbrin Bible


When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

HENRY FIELDING

Tom Thumb the Great


The superior man is the man who fulfils his duty.

EUGENE IONESCO

Rhinoceros


Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

GEORGE MACDONALD

The Wise Woman and Other Stories


I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.

ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER

Life a Duty


Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Great Funny Quotes


Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


I do perceive here a divided duty.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello


Two sides of lonely,
One is heart,
One is duty.

THE LONE BELLOW

"Two Sides of Lonely"


The want of reward is no warrant for us to dispense with our duty.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Clarissa


Duty is obligation, the bastard child of loyalty and the will to serve; when you think about it, just another roundabout way of saying love. No wonder it causes so much pointless damage.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

GEORGES BERNANOS

Last Essays

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The journey of life is plain and straight enough if people were trained to make principle their watchword and duty their rule.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays