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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature ... and the thing which pleases us.
— Blaise Pascal
It is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell ...
— Jonathan Edwards
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
— Krister Stendahl
If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.
— Michel De Montaigne
But to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases.
— Charlotte Bronte
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
— Pierre Corneille
Doubting pleases me no less than knowing
— Dante Alighieri
Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
— Miguel De Cervantes
It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
— Seneca The Younger
Dad chuckles darkly. "She can do as she pleases. There's no let to it.
— Victoria Aveyard
The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
— Vincent De Paul
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
— Charlotte Bronte
God who placed me here will do what He pleases with me hereafter, and He knows best what to do.
— Henry St. John Bolingbroke
A likeness pleases every body;
— Jane Austen
We have confident; God gives only what pleases Him.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
— Henri La Fontaine
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
— A.W. Tozer
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
— Eugene Delacroix
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
— Abraham Lincoln
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
— Ambrose Bierce
not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
— Anonymous
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
— Michel De Montaigne
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
— Martin Luther
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.
— Sydney J. Harris
I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
— Boyd K. Packer
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
— J.Williard Gibbs
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
— Adolf Hitler
You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.
— Woodrow Wilson
Profound theology doesn't make anyone righteous; what pleases me is an exemplary life. Regret for wrongdoing is better than knowing its definition.
— Thomas A Kempis
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.
— William H Gass
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
— Samuel Johnson
Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
— Blaise Pascal
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
— Blaise Pascal
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
— Alphonsus Liguori
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Who pleases one against his will.
— William Congreve
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
— Bobby Sherman
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
The Music blows wherever Music pleases, you hear it's sound, but you cannot tell where the Music comes from or where the Music is going.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
— Michel De Montaigne
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
— George Whitefield
I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.
— L.M. Montgomery
It is not your responsibility to make them follow the right path; God guides whomever He pleases.
— Anonymous
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
— Carl Van Vechten
An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.
— Shozaburo Watanabe
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.
— James Blish
It's rare when there's something we can do for ourselves which also pleases someone else.
— John Irving
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
— William Cowper
What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.
— Rick Warren
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad
— Joseph Delaney
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
— Madame De Stael
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
— Jacques Amyot
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
— Thomas Jefferson
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
— Nia Vardalos
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
...what care I for words? Yet words do well
When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. — William Shakespeare
When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. — William Shakespeare
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.
— Richard Yates
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'
— Julian Lennon
It pleases me that people can be interactive.
— Tracey Emin
To live as it pleases me, or not to live at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
— Henry T. Blackaby
It's crowded, which pleases me. Salesladies intimidate me, I don't like to be caught shopping.
— Margaret Atwood