Quotes with pleases

  • Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
  • In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

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  • Bobby Sherman As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Jeremy Collier Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Jorge Luis Borges 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 as our memory does.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Persius Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Alexander Pope Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Barry Cornwall Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Charles Simmons No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield 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 you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Harold Lindsell Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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