The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
Tim Cook
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
John Frusciante
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Wolfman Jack
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Ellis Peters
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
Wallace Shawn
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele