Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. — William Shakespeare
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal.… — Leif Enger
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not… — Banana Yoshimoto
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too… — Daniel Handler
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies… — Michel de Montaigne
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant… — Oscar Wilde
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about… — Milan Kundera
Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only… — Karen Marie Moning
It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing… — Toni Morrison
..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long… — Charles Bukowski
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way… — Iain Banks
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my… — Peter Cameron
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. — Paulo Coelho
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that… — W. Somerset Maugham
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. — Margaret Mitchell
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing… — Richard Yates
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his… — Charles Dickens
How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to… — Daphne du Maurier

Who Wrote These Pleasant Quotes

655 authors contributed a total of 896 Pleasant Quotes, led by these top contributors: