Pleasing Quotes

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true. (Laozi)
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. View quote
John Updike
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. View quote
Jane Austen
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. View quote
Walter Scott
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. View quote
Vitruvius
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. View quote
Cicero
The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
Do as you would be done by is the surest method of pleasing. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? View quote
Jane Austen
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. View quote
William Shakespeare
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, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) View quote
Eve Ensler
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. View quote
Claude M. Bristol
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. View quote
Ellis Peters
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you? View quote
David Hockney
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man. (George Frederick Watts)
.. though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting and love to seem to take things wrong I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! View quote
Joseph Addison
Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. View quote
Joseph Merrick
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind. View quote
George Washington