Please Them Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them… — William J. H. Boetcker
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do,… — Edmund Burke
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases… — Lord Chesterfield
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please… — Jonathan Swift
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. — William Wordsworth
And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one… — David Gaider
As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot… — Jupiter Hammon
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way. — Lord Chesterfield
People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting. — Stormie Omartian
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them. — Jean Reno
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must… — Lord Chesterfield
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do… — Napoleon Bonaparte
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're… — Sarah Silverman
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please… — Chuck Palahniuk
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any… — William Butler Yeats
However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as… — Gregory Maguire
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who… — Charlotte Bronte
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the… — Christopher Hitchens

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