Conciliating Quotes
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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More Conciliating Quotes
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.
william harvey— Robert Willis in "The Life of Harvey" in The Works of William Harvey, M.D. (1847)
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
john jay chapman— Chapter 1 (Practical Agitation (1900))
I will go upon the rock, boys, and look abroad for the savages," said Ishmael shortly after, advancing towards them wit a mien which he intended should be conciliating, at the same time that it was authoritative. "If there is nothing to fear, we will go out on the plain; the day is too good to be lost in words, like women in the towns wrangling over their tea and sugared cakes.
james fenimore cooper— The Prairie (1827)
This will do much toward conciliating our people.
— Lee to Grant, on the latter permitting Confederate troops take their horses home to be farm animals (1865).
