The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

- Luc de Clapiers

The pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out.

- Sonny Bill Williams

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

- Samuel Johnson

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

- Richard Steele

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

- Remy de Gourmont

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

- Robert Rodriguez

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

- Robert Mitchum

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

- Maria Doyle Kennedy

I'm passionate about pleasing people.

- Michael Mina

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

- Lynn Coady

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

- Bill Atkinson

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

- Kym Whitley

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.

- Joshua Sasse

A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

- Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

- John Frusciante

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

- Justin Timberlake

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

- John Milton

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

- Ellis Peters

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

- Claude M. Bristol