Pleasant Quotes - Page 21

• A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

  Jane Austen

  Body, May, Single Women

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.1149, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Leader, Atmosphere

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

  John Steinbeck

  Girl, Fighting, Alive

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

  William Boyd

  Half, Filth, Hours

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

  John Newton

  Gay, Shining, Looks

  John Newton (1847). “One Hundred and Twenty Nine Letters from the Rev. John Newton ... to the Rev. William Bull, of Newport Pagnell: Written During a Period of Thirty-two Years, from 1773 to 1805 ...”, p.5

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• Hello, Harry!” she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly. “How did you know — ?” “Oh, just your expression,” she said. Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears.

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Hair, Expression

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• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Land, Vanity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.99, Hamilton Books

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• I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

  Thomas Harris

  Beautiful, Looks

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• When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

  John Keats

  Moving, Wings, Soul

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Book, Solitude, Enjoy

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.26, Vintage

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• I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

  David Levithan

  Appreciation, Nostalgia, Admiration

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.113, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

  Neal Shusterman

  Alive, Toilets, Said

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Memories, Moving, Night

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• You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Giving, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Names, Want, Pleasant Surprises

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

  Isaac Marion

  Tugging, Lips, Feels

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Civilization, People, Mind Blowing

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• We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Wry Smile, Way, Form

  Kelley Armstrong (2013). “The Rising: Number 3 in series”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Compliment, Hard

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

  Derek Landy

  Tired, Men, Focus

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• A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

  Dr. Seuss

  Children's Literature

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Happy Birthday To You!”

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• Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
  Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
  So the little minutes, humble though they be,
  Make the mighty ages of eternity.

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

  Time, Ocean, Humble

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, “Little Things”

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• And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

  William Blake

  Time, Feet, Mountain

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• I am any man's suitor,
  If any will be my tutor:
  Some say this life is pleasant,
  Some think it speedeth fast,
  In time there is no present,
  In eternity no future,
  In eternity no past.
  We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
  Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Past, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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