He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.
Please Quotes
The art of pleasing consists of being pleased.
I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
These deities have demanded the most abject and degrading obedience. In order to please them, man must lay his very face in the dust. Of course, they have always been partial to the people who created them, and have generally shown their partiality by assisting those people to rob and destroy others, and to ravish […]
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Writing, for him who knows it is better than all other professions; it pleases more than bread and beer, more than clothing and ornament.
No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
The worst things: To try to sleep and sleep not. To wait for one who comes not. To try to please and please not.
For we who live to please must please to live.
