“They who are pleased themselves must always please.”

— James Thomson (poet), The Castle of Indolence

Canto I, Stanza 15.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

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Scottish writer (1700-1748) 1700–1748

Elias Lyman Magoon (1810–1886) American minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 345.

“What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again: hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immoveable foundation they must ever stand.”

Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits

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?”

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Source: Men Without Women

“They would have propriety and possession, pleasing themselves with the power”

John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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.