Pleasanter Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter… — Mark Twain
It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch… — Noel Coward
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. — Johann Gottfried Herder
Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly… — Bernard DeVoto
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays. — Abraham Lincoln
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. — Heinrich Schliemann
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have… — Nina Bawden
It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the… — Lord David Cecil
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses. — Isaac Asimov
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. — Thomas Jefferson
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very… — Italo Svevo
Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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