Top 73 Hard To Please Quotes
#1. Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange ... CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.
Shelley K. Wall
#2. You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.
Emily Bronte
#3. Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but ...
Diana Ross
#4. I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.
Mark Nepo
#5. The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#6. He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
Aesop
#7. The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.
Fernand Point
#9. We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching.
Mark Nepo
#11. As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.
Geoffrey Moore
#12. Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.
Lisa Bedrick
#13. There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.
Margaret Of Valois
#14. Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. She thought it would dry his tears and give her some satisfaction as well. It could have worked, I suppose, but the children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.
Toni Morrison
#16. Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
William Temple
#17. But maybe it's wrong of me to complain ... I'm alive after all ... and I lose an enemy or two every day ... cancer, apoplexy, gluttony ... it's a pleasure the number that pass on! ... I'm not hard to please ... a name! ... another! ... there are good things in life ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#18. Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
Gil Hodges
#19. Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around,
For my possibilities;
I was so hard to please
Paul Simon
#20. O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Walter Scott
#21. People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Mason Cooley
#22. I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.
Beyonce Knowles
#23. I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.
Sheryl Crow
#24. The creature's spine was an external body part as hard as horn; and each section from the sides met at a raised point in the middle. 'Please don't turn around and face me' the Adjutant thought to himself.
D.M. Kirtaime
#25. Don't judge a book by its cover. Mom is always saying that, but most of the time, I think that's exactly what people are asking us to do: Please. Judge me by my cover. Judge me by exactly what I've worked so hard to show you.
Aaron Hartzler
#26. If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses.
Without their hard work and supreme idiotism it wouldn't have been possible.
You owe them the brutal sarcasm, they've earned it!
Himmilicious
#27. Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
Martin Freeman
#28. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.
David McCullough Jr.
#29. We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
Stephen Graham Jones
#30. Let's face it. It's already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.
Atlanta Hunter
#31. Jack of diamonds is a hard card, why should there be a story? It's too hard a card to please, and it isn't the no earth I know. I got hepatitis C from shooting speed thirty-three years ago.
Alice Notley
#32. I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never laughed as hard as I laughed with you but now not even the laughing feels good.
Nina LaCour
#33. I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
Taylor Spreitler
#34. Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
Sylvia Plath
#35. Please give me a chance to make you happy. I make this promise to you in this beautiful garden you fought so hard for, that I will spend every day putting you first.
Amy Andrews
#36. I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
John Lydon
#37. after an indeterminate amount of time having only bed baths? I'm fine with the safety belt - hell, do I want to fall on the hard floor? No, please, God, no.
Anonymous
#38. Ayden saw me and his body slumped. "Oh, thank God." "Please," Matthias said. "I told you she's too hard to kill." "Aww," I said. "Thank you." Matthias offered me a sweet smile. "Just like a cockroach."
A&E Kirk
#39. I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please ... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.
Ashley Purdy
#40. Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.
Ann Voskamp
#41. I'll make you eat those words."
"You are very welcome to try," she whispered. Her attempt at cockiness had turned breathy and yearning. "Please, try very hard."
A smile lit his hard features. "Trust me, that will be entirely my pleasure.
Thea Harrison
#42. Juliette, please, tell me what I'm supposed to do. How am I supposed to feel? It's one shitty thing right after another and I'm trying to be okay
God, I'm trying so hard but it's really freaking difficult and I miss
I miss you, I miss you so much it's killing me.
Tahereh Mafi
#43. No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.
Ringo Starr
#44. Master, I love how you make me feel. I love how you hurt me." She gasped again at a hard tug. "I'm here for you, Sir, to please you.
Verity Ant
#45. Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
Richard C. Armitage
#46. Please," she begged, kissing me again, reaching for my other hand and trying to pull it around her. "I want to be with you so much it's making it hard to breathe.
Christina Lauren
#47. I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.
Alexandra Adornetto
#49. What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. - Darcy
Jane Austen
#50. You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.
Stephen Manes
#51. I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.
C.J. Redwine
#52. Please," she whispered, sounding more frantic. "Don't leave me down in these chasms alone."
He smiled wryly. "Is it really this hard for you to let me win one single argument?"
"Yes!
Brandon Sanderson
#53. I've tried to be a better person ... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried ... "
"Nice try ... Five cents, please!
Charles M. Schulz
#54. This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#55. I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Anna Chancellor
#57. I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.
Jann Klose
#58. I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.
Reid Scott
#59. If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back
if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you ... I is what I is, and I'm not changing.
Paula Deen
#60. Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.
Susanna Kearsley
#61. It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Publilius Syrus
#62. eventually goes where he or she wants to go. People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. That is why they are so hard to live with. Please think about that for a while.
Richard Rohr
#63. If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.
Anne Hathaway
#64. I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.
Ruth Reichl
#65. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
Peggy Fleming
#66. In marriage, we're called to reflect God's love for us through our self-giving love for our spouse. God's love for us isn't dependent on our day-to-day feelings toward him, on how hard we work to please him, or even on how faithful we are to him. It's grounded in his nature and his covenant.
Matthew Vines
#67. God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.
C.S. Lewis
#68. His hands squeezed my neck, gripping firm but not hard. His face got closer. Please, Faye, whatever this is, when I get home from it, I want to slide into my bed with you bein' in it.
Kristen Ashley
#69. Please remember that you can talk to me about anything. I know it's hard to talk to your old mom about things, but I'll always help you in whatever way I can. I'm serious. You have to remember that I used to hold you right here in my arms.
Matt Abrams
#70. Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.
Rita Williams-Garcia
#71. Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.
Flannery O'Connor
#72. My chest tightened and I gasped, fighting to move on him, to feel him. "Dominate me, do it. Please." Make me forget. That's what he did, he made me forget. Even if only for a little while. During those minutes, I could be free. "Fuck me hard Lucian!" I cried.
Lucian Bane
#73. Oh boy. His chest was smooth and warm and hard as stone, and she
wanted to both touch and nibble.
And lick. Could she pretty please lick?
Jill Shalvis
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