Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. — Thomas Harris
When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings. — John Keats
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. — Aristotle
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Nikolai Gogol
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan
Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant. — Neal Shusterman
You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind… — C.S. Lewis
As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and… — Maurice Blanchot
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new. — Isaac Marion
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's… — Terence McKenna
We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant… — Kelley Armstrong
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. — Oscar Wilde
Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured… — Derek Landy
A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! — Dr. Seuss
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? — William Blake
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. — Mark Twain
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some… — Charles Dickens
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant… — Charles Dickens
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... — Aristotle
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy. — Plutarch
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. — Mark Twain
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are… — Polybius

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