Please Me Quotes
48 quotes by 44 authors
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Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
— Douglas MacArthur
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her…
— Robert Burns
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair…
— Dante Alighieri
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What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
— William Klein
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What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
— Samuel Johnson
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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America…
— Dennis Wilson
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When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that…
— Donald Knuth
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Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so…
— Marshall Field
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Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore…
— Billy Joel
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I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The world today doesn't please me.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
— William Landay
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I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
— Marilyn Manson
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If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should…
— Arshile Gorky
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If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power…
— Thomas Campion
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
— Natalie Portman
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To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Please Me Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 48 Please Me Quotes, led by these top contributors: