Quotes with please

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  • Robert C. Edwards Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others.
    Robert C. Edwards
    American author (1927 - 2013)
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  • Ovid That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Auberon Herbert The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Samuel Johnson The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edmund Burke The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Adolf Loos The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • W. Edwards Deming The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
    W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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  • Robert Brustein The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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  • Black Kettle The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • William Hazlitt There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Chapman Too much desire to please divorces.
    Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
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  • Bobby Heenan WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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