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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.
— Jack Gantos
I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.
— Robert Sheckley
She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.
— Alison Weir
There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
— Voltaire
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
— Marcus Aurelius
It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.
— Edward Rutherfurd
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
— Abraham Lincoln
From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
— John Milton
So they put the gold in bags and slung them on the ponies, who were not at all pleased about it.
— Brandon Sanderson
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
— Luc De Clapiers
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
— Alexander Pope
Enoch was taken away so that he did not experience death ... . He was approved, having pleased God. Hebrews 11:5
— Beth Moore
Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.''Pleased to meet you,' I lied. — Kenneth Oppel
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
— Jonathan Swift
We not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased. — William Wordsworth
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
— Arlen Specter
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
— Samuel Johnson
I was not thirsty, but I was pleased to be offered alcohol.
— Graeme Simsion
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
— Malcolm Forbes
One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
— Marianne Moore
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
— Ben Fountain
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
— Isaac Newton
I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
— Aristotle.
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
— Nigella Lawson
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
— William Shakespeare
I told you," says Riley, looking pleased. "F.A.F""F.A.F?" I repeat, trying not to stare at her. "What's that?"
"Fine. As. Fuck. — Beckie Stevenson
Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?
— Henry David Thoreau
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
— Michelangelo
I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
— Alice Hoffman
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
To this day I'm not entirely sure what hematocrit and hemoglobin are, but mine started to come back up and that pleased everybody.
— Stephen King
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
— Gore Vidal
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
— Margaret Mitchell
I'm pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I'm not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.
— Robert Plant
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
— John Lancaster Spalding
All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
— John Milton
So you are not a coward, after all," he said, and I fancied his tone was faintly pleased. "You would face the devil on his own footing.
— Susanna Kearsley
Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
— Tracy Chevalier
She was so pliable. He could do anything with her, arrange her as he pleased, and she would say yes. Not just yes. Oh yes!
— Margaret Atwood
God is never pleased with ignorant worship, with worship that is not grounded in the knowledge of God.
— R.C. Sproul
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
— Herman Melville
Anne could not believe in their having the same sort of pride, she was pleased with him for not liking Mrs Clay;
— Jane Austen
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
— Maeve Binchy
This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.
— Susan Sontag
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.
— Charles Baxter
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
The look on his face frightened me terribly, but at the same time I was pleased not to be alone any more.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.
— Steven Millhauser
