Pleasant Quotes - Page 28

• It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

  Kingsley Amis

  Historical, Belief, I Can

  Kingsley Amis (2013). “The Green Man”, p.157, New York Review of Books

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• I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Self, Giving, Done

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.46

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• Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Flower, Rivers

  Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.85, Manchester University Press

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• For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Witty, Bed, Tables

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.397, Delphi Classics

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• We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Opposites, Indulge In

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2279, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasant words are the food of love.

  Ovid

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lines, May, Mail

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• I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

  Rick Majerus

  Reality, Woe Is Me, Issues

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• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

  George Peele

  God, Wind, Tree

  George Peele (1829). “The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc”, p.62

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• It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Way, Encounters, One Way

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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Madmen

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• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  Pat Morita

  Writing, Details, Remember

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.

  George Santayana

  Regret, Real, Past

  "The Letters of George Santayana".

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• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Adelaide, May, Lord

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

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• Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

  Epictetus

  Children, Play, Society

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• It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Creeds, Modest

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.8

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• When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

  Hesiod

  Family, Brother, Literature

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

  Robertson Davies

  Women, Thinking, Affection

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Hands, Voice

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

  John Barth

  May, Stones, Matter

  JOHN BARTH (1956). “THE FLOATING OPERA”

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Hunger

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• A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

  David Hume

  Faithful, Age, Weakness

  David Hume (2016). “The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book”, p.2565, VM eBooks

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• While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

  Ann Beattie

  Humorous, Writing, Thinking

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• How pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

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