Please Quotes - Page 27

• In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love

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• In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love, Heart, Eye

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• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Expectations, Understanding

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• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Flattery, Acceptable, Ifs

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.95

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• The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Differences, Rich

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• If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

  Walter Raleigh

  Beauty, Years, Lasts

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• Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Giving, Merit

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Air, Mind

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.223

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• Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kings, Real, Men

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• A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Long, Doe

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• Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Animal, Men, Society

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• My poems please the brave:
  My poems, short and sincere,
  Have the force of steel
  Which forges swords.

  Jose Marti

  Brave, Steel, Sincere

  "Simple Verses". Book by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Talking, Long, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.101, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Common Sense, Desire

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Retirement, Age, May

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.307, Oxford University Press

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• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gratitude, Vanity, Mind

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• Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Traitor, Treason

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• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  Edward Dyer

  Perfect, Deceit, Ease

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Government, Planets

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• Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurt, Soul, Mistress

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.145

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• Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fancy, Way, Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.68

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• It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Beauty, Tenderness

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• Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friends, Men, Ungrateful

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• Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

  V. S. Pritchett

  People, Academic, Used

  "V. S. Pritchett" by Paul Theroux, archive.nytimes.com. May 22, 1977.

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