Pleased Quotes
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.
Andrew Heyward
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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
Margaret Mitchell
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I'm pretty pleased with my place in the world.
Simon Fowler
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By all implies marry if you get a great wife-husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.
Socrates
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I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased.
Richard Kind
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They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
Oscar Wilde
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.
James Boswell
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A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.
Wilbur Smith
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We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
Arthur Helps
