Pleases Quotes

305 quotes by 268 authors

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just… — Jorge Luis Borges
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. — Charlotte Bronte
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint… — Candace Cameron
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment… — Giacomo Casanova
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does… — Chanakya
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
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a… — Lord Chesterfield
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of… — Seneca the Younger
It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else. — William Gadsby
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation… — Abraham Lincoln
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. — Aubrey Thomas de Vere
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… — Chief Joseph
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases. — Adolf Hitler
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not… — Lord Byron
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… — Samuel Johnson
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. — George Bernard Shaw
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… — Joseph Addison

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