Pleased Quotes

737 Pleased quotes by 572 unique authors

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which… — John Lancaster Spalding
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to… — Sarah Fielding
[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full… — Jack Kevorkian
Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. .… — Joseph Parker
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre… — Michelle Rempel
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. — Richard Wilbur
Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. — Henry David Thoreau
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the… — Beverly Engel
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grief best is pleased with grief's society ... — William Shakespeare
While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen… — Fran Lebowitz
Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing. — William Hazlitt
I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like… — Anne Graham Lotz
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — Samuel Johnson
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. — Herman Melville
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh… — Lord Chesterfield
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things… — Max Beerbohm
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. — Cullen Hightower
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. — George Crabbe

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