Please Me Quotes

• My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

  Coco Chanel

  Life, Inspire, Please

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• Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Reality, Dresses

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• I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Hands, Wish

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sake, Walks, Please

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Essays”, p.257

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• I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Winning, Thrill

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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• Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Please

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Deeds, Good Deeds, Please

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

  William Shakespeare

  Cousin, Father, Handsome

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.106, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Go and change your gown, Mary," Daniel interjected. "I'm partial to gold. If you've a gown in that color, wear it to please me. If not, white will do well enough. I'm wedding you, Lady Mary." Lord Daniel Ferguson caught Lady Mary before she hit the floor. He wasn't at all irritated that his intended had just fainted dead away, and he actually let out a full burst of laughter as he swept Mary up into his arms and held her against his chest. "She's overcome with gratitude, Alec," Daniel called out to his friend. "Aye, Daniel, I can see she is," Alec answered.

  Julie Garwood

  Gratitude, Laughter, Color

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• I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.

  Maya Banks

  Men, Touching, Want

  Leanne Banks, Catherine Mann, Sara Orwig, Olivia Gates, Katherine Garbera (2009). “One-Click Buy: May 2009 Silhouette Desire: Billionaire Extraordinaire\Propositioned Into a Foreign Affair\Montana Mistress\The Once and Future Prince\The Moretti Arrangement\The Tycoon's Rebel Bride”, p.547, Silhouette

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• You are beyond frustrating," she grumbled. "Why can't you do what I ask you to do without issuing a million questions first?" "I could say the same of you." "I don't--Argh." She raised a fist at him. "So maybe I do ask a lot of questions. So what. Anyone in my position would do the same. Besides, I'm a girl and that's my job. You're a boy. You're supposed to pound your chest with your fists and grunt, then do everything in your power to please me." "Hardly. The man you just described is more likely to knock you over the head with a club and drag you away by the hair." -Annabelle and Zacharel

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

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• Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Doe, Resistance, Protest

  "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

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• Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
  To change true rules for odd inventions.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Fashion, Nice

  1593 Bianca to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.78-9.

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• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Long

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• Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Matter, Excellent

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• I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

  Dean Koontz

  Good Day, Average, Lucky

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• Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

  Paul McCartney

  Musical, Pieces, Rooms

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• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  Natalie Portman

  Answers, Want, Asks

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• What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

  Maurice Strong

  Agendas, Development, Please

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• To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Heart, Character

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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• If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Fall, White, Darkness

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• Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

  Michelangelo

  Pain, Inspiration, Sleep

  Michelangelo (2017). “Sonnets of Michelangelo”, p.78, Routledge

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• Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

  Steven Brust

  People, Feelings, Pleasure

  Steven Brust (2008). “Jhegaala”, p.251, Macmillan

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• A woman after my own heart. (Stryker) You’re absolutely right about that. Nothing would please me more than ripping that organ out of you and feasting on it. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Feasting, Organs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.93, Macmillan

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