A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
Joseph Lancaster

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
Elias Hicks

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Richard Le Gallienne

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
William Penn

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia Woolf

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Charles Dudley Warner

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
Elias Hicks