Quotes with please

  • Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
  • Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
  • O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
  • Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
  • A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
  • A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
  • Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
  • We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
  • I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
  • Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Carolina Herrera Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Robert Burns I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
    A Man Without a Country
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bob Edwards Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Carl Gustav Jung At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Be as romantic as you please about love... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oswald Chambers Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Bob Dylan But I mean no harm nor put fault
    On anyone that lives in a vault
    But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bob Dylan Come Congressmen, Senators, please heed the call
    Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
    For he who gets hurt will be he who has
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.
    Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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