Definition of Readily

Readily

In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.

Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.

Related Definitions:

Cheerfully, Delay, In, Manner, Objection, Or, Promptly, Quickly, Ready, Reluctance, Willingly, Without

Readily Quotations

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
Giacomo Casanova

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi Minh

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Pierre Corneille

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
Charles Babbage

What we wish, that we readily believe.
Demosthenes

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Robertson Davies

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
Geraldine Ferraro

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
Fredrik Bajer

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
Matthew Simpson

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Readily Translations

readily in German is bereit, fertig
readily in Latin is prompte
readily in Spanish is de buena gana

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