Canto I, Stanza 15.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 345.
Discourse no. 7, delivered on December 10, 1776; vol. 1, p. 223.
Discourses on Art
“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
Source: Men Without Women
“They would have propriety and possession, pleasing themselves with the power”
Sec. 105
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Another thing wherein they shew their love of dominion, is, their desire to have things to be theirs: They would have propriety and possession, pleasing themselves with the power which that seems to give, and the right that they thereby have, to dispose of them as they please. He that has not observ's these two humours working very betimes in children, has taken little notice of their actions: And he who thinks that these two roots of almost all the injustice and contention that so disturb human life, are not early to be weeded out, and contrary habits introduc'd, neglects the proper season to lay the foundations of a good and worthy man.
Source: Posthumous publications, Portrait of Manet by himself and his contemporaries (1960), p. 99.
“I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
kākakāka kakākāka kukākāka kakāka ka ।
kukakākāka kākāka kaukākāka kukākaka ॥
Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam
“Who peppered the highest was surest to please.”
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 112.
