Pleasant Quotes

• In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Fact

• Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Company
  • Really
  • Walk

• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  

  Aristotle
  • Question
  • Mankind
  • Pleasant

• In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Mind
  • Sweet
  • Mood

• I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Hate
  • Husband
  • Kitchen

• 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 not a pleasant situation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Situation

• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pleasure
  • Choice
  • Noble

• Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Done
  • German

• Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Love
  • Love Is

• When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Spirit
  • Pleasant
  • Acted

• I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Life
  • Conclusion
  • Antarctic Regions

• Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Break
  • Pleasant
  • Right or Wrong

• When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

  

  Keith Morris Black Flag
  • Surprise
  • Pleasant
  • Revelations

• After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

  

  Charles Nodier
  • Thought
  • Books
  • Communicating

• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

  

  Aristotle
  • Human
  • Events
  • Delight

• But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

  

  Rumi
  • Deeds
  • Your
  • Acts

• Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friends
  • Easily
  • Old People

• I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Faces

• Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

  

  William Blake
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Pleasant

• There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Way
  • Stage

• What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

  

  Kate Langley Bosher
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Humans

• To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Pleasant

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