submission quotes

   A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.9.

Johnson approached a strongly fortified position by outflanking it, or burrowing under it, or surprising the defenders from the rear, or raining down obstacles upon them from the sky, or starving them into submission† Rarely, and then only reluctantly, would he proceed directly from A to B, to him the shortest distance between two points was a tunnel.

-William Raymond Manchester
  Of Lyndon B  Johnson. The Death of a President.

Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.

-John Milton
  Of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.310^11.