Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. — John Ruskin
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. — John Ruskin
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to… — Jerry Saltz
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. — Walter Scott
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. — Wallace Shawn
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. — Zadie Smith
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a… — Baruch Spinoza
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. — John Updike
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook… — Mark Twain
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a… — China Mieville
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be… — Catherine Marshall
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a… — Oscar Wilde
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and… — Libba Bray
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.… — Thomas Aquinas
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do… — Tara Bray Smith
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful… — Mark Twain
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God… — Alice Walker
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into… — Dorothy Allison

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