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But then, why smile? He could not understand why some people smiled when they weren't pleased, or how they'd learned such a smile, or what it was for. — Ernest Hebert

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

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. — Epicurus

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

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people. — Ambrose

It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions. — Thea Harris

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

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears. — Chaley Rose

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

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain. — John Newton

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

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it. — Joyce Meyer

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 particular
way 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

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable. — Jane Austen

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

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile. — Aristotle.

I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella. — Zen Cho

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

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view] — Marco Vichi

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

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. — C.S. Lewis

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

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane. — Steve Martin

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

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. — Wilfred Owen

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel. — George W. Bush

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. — Len G. Murray