Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) Irish bishop
Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321.
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) Irish bishop
Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321.
“I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:134?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, Cllected Works, vol. 1. p. 119 <br class="br">1830s <br class="br">Context: I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I won’t be satisfied with anything less than everything”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: A Night Like This
“My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.”
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
Peter Ackroyd book The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“None of us can be satisfied with the status quo. Not by a long shot.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) Americna minister
Book II, Chapter XV.
Crowds (1913)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:134?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119 <br class="br">1830s
Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897) French Discalced Carmelite nun
March 18(?), 1888
General Correspondence