"Please" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... course you will, as readers increase and sales go up. Larger, as he says, "It will be worth the other jitney." Put ads in the rear. Have full page illustrations when possible. But another thing he is absolutely wrong on. Please do not adopt the antique method of continuing ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various
... may it please your ladyship!" exclaimed the dusky wight, "A man may be a precious rogue, though perfectly polite." "I don't know that," the lady said, "but grant that now and then Some fellows may appear polite who ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... Edgar," replied Baldwin, with a gratified look. "I taught you to swim when you wasn't much bigger than a marlinespike, an' to make boats a'most before you could handle a clasp-knife without cuttin' your fingers, an' now that you've come to man's estate nothin'll please me more than to make a diver of you. But," continued Baldwin, while a shade clouded his wrinkled and weatherbeaten visage, "I can't let you go down in the dress without leave. I'm under authority, you ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... everything agreeable," writes Barron in his diary in 1828; and in 1833, after Barron had moved to London, and Taylor had tasted the first public failure of his powers, the latter wrote: "To my ever dearest Mr. Barron say, if you please, that I miss him more than I regret him—that I acquiesce in his retirement from Norwich, because I could ill brook his observation of my increasing debility of mind." This chosen companion of William Taylor must himself have been no ordinary ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... a time,' began the nightingale, 'there lived a pasha whose daughter was the most beautiful maiden in the whole kingdom. Suitors she had in plenty, but she was not easy to please, and at length there were only three whom she felt she could even think of marrying. Not knowing which of the three she liked best, she took counsel with her father, who summoned the young men into his presence, and then told them that they must each of them learn some trade, ...
— The Olive Fairy Book • Various
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