Communication Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's great and pleasing to be honest, but the tone and manner you use to speak your mind determines whether you inform people or…

— Kemmy Nola

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance…

— Francoise Sagan

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

— Anonymous

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror…

— Lena Dunham

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an…

— Michel de Montaigne

If we want a good and satisfying relationship with people around us, sincerity and honesty are important.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

— Janet Jackson

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility,…

— Iris Murdoch