Gratify Quotes

65 quotes by 57 authors

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge… — George Eliot
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. — Charles Dudley Warner
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — George Cheyne
Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of… — P. M. Forni
If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;… — Edith Wharton
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a… — Richard Le Gallienne
Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the personâ€™s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for… — Werner Erhard
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — Robert Walpole
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. — Lajos Kossuth
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an… — Joseph Addison
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our… — Oscar Wilde
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. — Publilius Syrus
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to… — Ambrose Bierce
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it… — Sir Fulke Greville
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely… — Bayard Taylor
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they… — Henry Adams
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain

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