My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Frederick II

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
Molly Ivins

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
Ausonius

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
Francis Lockier

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Ang Lee

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Susannah McCorkle

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.
Colin Mochrie

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
Anna Held

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
Helen Reddy

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

Please don't quote me.
Mike Piazza