#pleas

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#had #head #i #ignore #just

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. ↗

— George Burns

#anywhere #face #here #i #pleased

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#enjoying #hopefully #i #i write #music

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#been #carefree #ever #i #life

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #confrontations #forward #i #kind

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. ↗

— Chanakya

#does #good #good wife #her #him

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#ask #else #ever #first #hesitate