Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
I'm very pleased to play for Manchester United. I want to hep the team get into the Champions League.
If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it.
I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.
I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.
Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
NSS is pleased that VP Pence has provided a strong endorsement for public-private partnerships in space.
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
Unifying the legacy SAG and AFTRA contracts was essential, and I am very pleased that we were able to achieve that.
I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.
The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.
I'm really pleased that women like me as well as men. My fanbase is quite evenly split.
God will certainly be pleased if you give water for the thirsty, bread for the hungry and clothes to the naked.
My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.
I am pleased I went from fourth back into a medal position, but bronze is not good enough for me.
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
I love it in Udine, no doubt about it, but I am clearly pleased to read that other sides are interested in me.
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
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