Necessity Quotes

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. ~ The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne The vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ~ Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. ~ Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "Necessity's sharp pinch!" ~ King Lear by William Shakespeare Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. ~ The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington