Pleasant Quotes

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

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!

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

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.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.