For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac Disraeli

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Samuel Richardson

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Harold Pinter

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
Colleen McCullough

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop