Reluctant

Famous quotes containing the word reluctant:

“My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Those who have money go abroad in the world, but those who have no suitable clothes are reluctant to do so.”
—Chinese proverb.

“As a fond mother, when the day is o’er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)