Felicity Kendal

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

English Actress

Isaac Barrow

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

English Mathematician

Rowan Williams

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

English Theologian

Guy Finley

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

American Writer

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Italian Writer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Roman Statesman

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

French Writer

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Irish Poet

James Russell Lowell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

American Poet

Helen Hunt Jackson

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

The adjective form of 'needful' is rarely used in modern English and may sound outdated.

Old-fashioned Usage

'Needful' as an adjective often appears in classic literature or historical contexts.

Literary Context

When used today, 'needful' might be employed to create a dramatic or solemn tone.

Dramatic Effect

The noun 'needful' is commonly used in Indian English to refer to necessary actions or things.

Specific to India

In Indian English, saying 'do the needful' is a polite way of asking someone to do what is necessary.

Polite Request

'Do the needful' implies that the listener understands what needs to be done without specific details.

Implicit Understanding

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Needful

Old-fashioned Usage

Literary Context

Dramatic Effect

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