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Pleased Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
- For who is pleased with himself.
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
- 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…
- Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
- None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the…
- A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
- I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope
- Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my… — Queen Victoria
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- If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me… — William Shakespeare
- When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong,… — Beverly Engel