#plea

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #plea




The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.


Anacharsis


#first #fourth #health #madness #pleasure

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.


H. L. Mencken


#depart #ever #eye #forgive #ghost

The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.


Derek Landy


#pleasant #skulduggery #funny

All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.


Tegan Quin


#new-love #please-come-back #sainthood #sara-quin #sheets

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


Ausonius


#i #man #many #please #pleases

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.


Julian Barnes


#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.


Neil Gaiman


#life #pain #pleasure #life

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns


Marquis de Sade


#pleasure #life

The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she whispered. “It’s a box,” he whispered back. “What kind of box?” “A wooden one.” She gave him a look.


Derek Landy


#death-bringer #skulduggery-pleasant #valkyrie-cain #death

I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.


Scott Douglas


#library #library-books #quiet-please #art