Will it please your Majesty to go and see the statue?”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

‘It will not please you more than the others,’ said the cat.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

“Mr. Elton is a very pretty young man, to be sure, and a very good young man, and I have a great regard for him.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Poor young man, though!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

I feel certain of your complete success, provided you make the concentration in time, to assure which I will see in person to the embarkation and dispatch of my quota, and I will write to General Steele, conveying to him my personal and professional opinion that the present opportunity is the most perfect one that will ever offer itself to him to clean out his enemies in Arkansas.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"Your worship is right, senor governor," said the physician; "and therefore your worship, I consider, should not eat of those stewed rabbits there, because it is a furry kind of food; if that veal were not roasted and served with pickles, you might try it; but it is out of the question."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

SIRE,—The letter which it pleased your majesty to write to me on the 20th of July, was not delivered to me till this morning, and found me laid up with a very violent tertian ague, a complaint very common in this part of the country during the last month.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

May't please your Majesty to give us leave Freely to render what we have in charge; Or shall we sparingly show you far of The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If you have given her any promise you must take it back, that is all!
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

The Doctor went through a solemn form of introduction, adding, for the benefit of both parties, ‘You must try to like each other for my sake.’
— from The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

"And now, Count Dietrichstein," continued Joseph, "I will allow you to postpone your mission to Brussels, so that before you leave Vienna you may witness the nuptials of your daughter.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

But I didn't say a word of love—-only perhaps—" "Only perhaps you made the idea of it underlie every word you did speak.
— from The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Upon awaking, I received the following note from the duchesse d’Aiguillon:— “MADAME LA COMTESSE,—I owe his majesty many thanks for the pleasing, yet mournful, task he has allotted me.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

"You'll think up plenty once you put your mind to it."
— from Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents by Rupert Hughes

There is another more urgent reason that makes me dare to petition your Majesty to concede this favor to the fathers, or rather, to me and to this city and these islands, namely, that although this seems to be an expense and drain to the royal estate, it really is not so, but a saving of the expenses and drain.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Now the end of these words read is, to reform this irregular, disorderly posture of our minds, to hold out to you things truly excellent, and exceedingly convenient,—things good and profitable, in the most superlative degree, in the highest rank that your imaginations can suppose, and then to persuade you, that you are not deceived [pg 279] with vain words, or fair promises, but that there is a certain truth, and an infallible reality in them, that you being ascertained in your souls, according to the certainty of the thing presented, you may then freely, without any reserve, give your hearts to love, embrace, and follow them.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

She was back in Panama again—in Panama, where for endless hours on dark porches young men tease young women and tell them that they are beautiful....
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis