Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so… — Julian of Norwich
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind… — Wendell Berry
Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances. — Mari Mancusi
No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others… — Rachilde
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -… — Charles Baudelaire
She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she… — A. S. Byatt
My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another… — Chelsea Handler
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear — Daphne du Maurier
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God… — Alice Walker
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. — Janet Malcolm
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read… — Mark Twain
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating… — Guy de Maupassant
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful… — Thomas Aquinas
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake. — C.S. Lewis
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different,… — Eve Ensler
You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the… — Sholom Aleichem
Do you like my working persona?" Saiman asked softly. "An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say?" Aren't we pleased with ourselves.… — Ilona Andrews

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