Famous quotes containing the word pleased:
“Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to say, though I am sure I know not what honour he could receive from me; but these sort of expressions, I find, are used as words of course, without any distinction of persons, or study of propriety.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a “joke.””
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)