Gratify Quotes

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover'¢ our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion'¢ or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw'¢ themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.