Gratify Quotes

65 quotes by 57 authors

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to… — Virginia Woolf
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. — Mark Twain
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. — Don DeLillo
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon… — Aldous Huxley
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.… — Oscar Wilde
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… — Naomi Wolf
I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was… — G.A. Henty
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with… — Truman Capote
We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and… — Guy de Maupassant
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been… — Michael Pollan
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,… — Samuel Johnson
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. — William Penn
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will… — Joseph Lancaster
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by… — Elias Hicks
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. — Elias Hicks
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek… — Henry George

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