Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. — Freya Stark
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you… — Tennessee Williams
So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. — Augusten Burroughs
Geniuses are not always pleasant people. — Karen Armstrong
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep… — Fran Lebowitz
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. — Unknown Author
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph… — Dawn Powell
I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?… — Virginia Woolf
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like… — Vladimir Nabokov
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. — Dorothy Parker
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you… — Anna Quindlen
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. — Louisa May Alcott
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for… — Marcus Aurelius
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out… — Woody Allen
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out… — Charlotte Bronte
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that… — Laura Esquivel
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. — Vladimir Lenin

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