Pleased Quotes

737 Pleased quotes by 572 unique authors

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased.… — Mortimer Adler
Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger. — Audrey Niffenegger
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you… — Alice Walker
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what… — Mercedes Lackey
Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto) Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at… — C.S. Lewis
I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong… — William Goldman
Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif — Maria V. Snyder
I have you here. Why shouldn’t I be pleased? (Stryker) I can think of a million reasons, starting with the fact that I want to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want… — David Sedaris
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not… — Wilbur Smith
That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed. Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he… — Cassandra Clare
Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much… — Megan Whalen Turner
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen
Cam held her closer. "Marry me, Amelia. You're what I want. You're my fate." One hand slid to the back of her head, gripping the… — Lisa Kleypas
I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or… — Sarah Rees Brennan
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so… — Eoin Colfer
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness? — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry. — Cassandra Clare
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was… — Virginia Woolf
But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have… — William Goldman

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