#pleas

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. ↗

— George Crabbe

#admit #all things #eat #friend #house

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.' ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#down #face #get #i #like

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor. ↗

— Charles Dance

#i #number #phoned #please #said

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#please #same #you

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#details #every #every man #gray #great

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Voltaire

#first of all #illusion #pleasures

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#come #come and go #go #i #i can

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lie #life #moderation #pleasures #ring

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder