Pleased Quotes

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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is… — Joseph Addison
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. — Ezra Taft Benson
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images… — Anthony Bourdain
School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite… — Jo Brand
We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have… — Richard Branson
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done… — Eva Braun
Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. — Jeff Bridges
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with… — Jean de la Bruyere
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. — George Burns
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. — Lord Chesterfield
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
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God,… — Adam Clarke
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in… — William Gurnall
I'm also particularly pleased that there is bipartisan support to include the input of border communities. Not only will security be strengthened according to Washington,… — Jeff Flake

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