Quotes with inflexible

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• Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  Iris Murdoch
  Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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• The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

  Lady Blessington
  Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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• The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

  Lady Blessington
  Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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• We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

  Andrew Jackson
  American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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• Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

  David Hume
  Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• determination
• necessities
• enterprises
• politeness
• requisites
• government

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