Quotes on Please

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.