Moreover, a thing that you certainly will not appreciate, it gratifies my taste for the mysterious.

Greater events, whether of joy or sorrow, should be communicated to friends; and, on such occasions, their sympathy gratifies and comforts.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

She gratifies Madame Polignac's Friends.

Every thing that is new or uncommon raises a Pleasure in the Imagination, because it fills the Soul with an agreeable Surprize, gratifies its Curiosity, and gives it an Idea of which it was not before possest.

In a private circle, a ready repartee, a shrewd cross-question, ridicule and banter, a caustic remark or an amusing anecdote, whatever sets off the individual to advantage, or gratifies the curiosity or piques the self-love of the hearers, keeps attention alive, and secures the triumph of the speakerit is a personal contest, and depends on personal and momentary advantages.

Kant succeeded in giving very delicate and felicitous verbal expression to these distinctions: the agreeable gratifies (vergnügt) and excites inclination (Neigung); the good is approved (gebilligt) and arouses respect (Achtung); the beautiful "pleases" (gefällt) and finds "favor" (Gunst).

The more she learns about our tastes, the more perfectly she gratifies them.

The actual liberation of all our citizens who were prisoners in Algiers, while it gratifies every feeling heart, is itself an earnest of a satisfactory termination of the whole negotiation.

It gratifies my vanity to be seen in this artistic quarter with a pretty woman on my arm.

"You know how I loved him for years, and can imagine how it gratifies me to hear you speak of him thus.

We not only are most sensible of the last impressions, but such is the unwillingness of mankind to admit transcendant merit, that, though it be difficult to obliterate the reproach of miscarriages by any subsequent achievement, however illustrious, yet the reputation raised by a long train of success may be finally ruined by a single failure; for weakness or errour will be always remembered by that malice and envy which it gratifies.

But of that kind of reward which gratifies literary taste and ambition, she had almost none.

Satire is thought useful, too much because it gratifies the uncharitableness of our nature.

I confess that at first it gratifies one's vanity; but only a spiritual parvenu would find it sufficient to fill the whole life, or take the place of real happiness.

Once a man's desire is in the right direction, the more he gratifies it the better; Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs & flaming hair, But Desire Gratified Plants fruits of life & beauty there.

The gods have not (as you know) made me poetical, nor do I often tax your patience with a simile, but I think this French sensibility is to genuine feeling, what their paste is to the diamondit gratifies the vanity of the wearer, and deceives the eye of the superficial observer, but is of little use or value, and when tried by the fire of adversity quickly disappears.

When the Author cannot strike out of himself any more of that which he has superior to those who make up the Bulk of his Audience, his natural Recourse is to that which he has in common with them; and a Description which gratifies a sensual Appetite will please, when the Author has nothing [about him to delight ] a refined Imagination.

This gratifies the Canadian, who naturally purrs over an emigrant owing everything to the land which adopted him and set him on his feet.

"Le Marquis des Saffras," by Jules de la Madelène, on the contrary, gratifies both judgment and feeling.

The less urgent needs of the present are sacrificed in order to protect the income that gratifies the more urgent needs of the future.

Very few persons, however, ever stop to inquire what particular foods are best adapted to the manufacture of good blood and the maintenance of perfect health; but whatever gratifies the palate or is most conveniently obtained, is cooked and eaten without regard to its dietetic value.

Self-love quickens their admiration of their hero, and admiration for their hero gratifies their self-love.

Friendship, or love, gratifies self-love; for it tacitly acknowledges that we must possess some good qualities to attract beyond the mere love of nature.

"Reverend sir," began Maestro Guglielmi, blandly, stepping up to where the priest stood a little apart, and speaking in a metallic voice audible in any court of law, be it ever so closely packed"it gratifies me much that chance has so ordered it that we two are left alone."