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“There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Able Wish Painting Please Give Me Asking

Author:Norbert Bisky

“He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?”

Writing Book Wish Please Authorship Brevity

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

Littles Long I Can Remember Lost Wish Pleasure Rooms Feet Youth Flower Please Findings Raises Melancholy Toys

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

“The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.”

Ifs Giving Doe Pain Wish Pleasure Objects Friends Please Latter True Friend Flatterer Shunning

Book:Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

Source: Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

“Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.”

Lying Wish Please Untruth

Author:Shirley Hazzard

“Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.”

Eye Wish Walks Fire Cutting Brother Please Mouths Blessed Humble Flames Away From You Cringe Granite

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.”

Long Character Running Wish Term Generations Havens Reader Please Series Endure Impressed Holmes

Author:Michael Koryta

“What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.”

Ifs Men World Wells Enough Order Dies Wish Generations Air Fool Please Idiot Wages

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.”

Ifs Mind Wish Gratitude Please Painful Favors Vanity Sensations Wiser Accord Flattered

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.”

Ifs Wish Pieces Land Please Small Pieces

Author:Pol Pot

“I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.”

Mind Important Bigs Kids Wish Please Creator All Time Big Picture

Author:Mary Engelbreit

“Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've always wanted to be. What's so bad about that? My own notion is I wish sex work would be decriminalized (not legalized, please note the distinction) so that more trannies could get into the field if they wanted to and not get into trouble for it.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Wanted Culture Wish Sex My Own Trouble Fields Please Notes Notion Distinction Freak Sex Work

Author:Kate Bornstein