Please Quotes - Page 9
William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.50
William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.287
He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.433, Oxford University Press, USA
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.60, Knopf
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.58
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.232
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.40
Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.230, Allison & Busby
"A Hazy Shade of Winter" (song) (1966)
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Rose, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1821). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..”, p.38
Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.31, e-artnow
