Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it… — Alexander Hamilton
Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here.… — Janet Morris
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is… — Fred Melamed
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as… — Christopher Hitchens
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody. — John Spence
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system. — Benjamin Disraeli
Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. — Baltasar Gracian
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the… — Thomas Gray
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the… — Edward Abbey
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food. — Edward Abbey
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. — Theodore Sturgeon
It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart… — Christine O'Donnell
How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is… — Elliot Easton
With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches… — John Foxe
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. — Mary Wortley Montagu
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? — R C Sproul
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. — Louise Colet
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. — Antoine Rivarol
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of… — George Washington
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial… — Edmund Burke

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