All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you. — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
In a world where your interactions with humans are solely about rating one to five, two things happen: One is all humanity… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Everyone’s default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you… — Nathan Fielder Copy Share Image
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
