Pleasing Quotes
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For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
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More Pleasing Quotes
This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 371. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
...in later times Mahomet opened a way for his religion by his sword, and advanced it by conquest. Now it is no wonder that a religion so pleasing to the lower appetites, that gives licence to all corrupt affections in the present life, and promises a sensual paradise suitable to beasts in the future, should be embraced by those who were subject to his arms.
— Reverend William Bates (1990). The Whole Works of the Rev. William Bates, Volume 1 (W. Farmer, Ed.)(pages 503–504). Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications.
'With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Cloe want?'She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope— 1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.159-60.
Skiddaw shews its vast base, and bounding all that part of the vale, rises gently to a height that sinks the neighboring hills; opens a pleasing front, smooth and verdant, smiling over the country like a gentle generous lord, while the fells of Borrowdale frown on it like a hardened tyrant.
— Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides (London: Benjamin White, [1774-6] 1790) p. 46
A pleasing fit of melancholy.
john milton— 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.545.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
john milton— 1671Samson Agonistes, l.1008.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
— 1963 In Vogue,15 Aug.
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.
nicolaus copernicus— As quoted in Poland : The Knight Among Nations (1907) by Louis E. Van Norman, p. 290; also in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, pp. 230-31.
So manifold, all pleasing in their kind,All healthful, are the employs of rural life,Reiterated as the wheel of time,Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.
william cowper— Line 624.
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.
joshua reynolds— Discourse no. 13; vol. 2, p. 136.
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
william shenstone— Elegies, no. 5, st. 3.
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— October 9, 1747.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Marmion, L'Envoy, To the Reader.
Fain would I Raphael's godlike art rehearse, And show th' immortal labours in my verse, Where from themingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heavenly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with life his blended colours glow. From theme to theme with secret pleasure tost, Amidst the soft variety I 'm lost: Here pleasing airs my ravish'd soul confound With circling notes and labyrinths of sound; Here domes and temples rise in distant views, And opening palaces invite my Muse.
joseph addison— A Letter from Italy (1703).
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
joseph addison— Act V, scene i.
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
ilana mercer— “Liberty and the Civil Wrongs Act,” WorldNetDaily.com, April 2, 2010.
The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust . You're gonna be pleasing each other, and if he already knows what pleases him, and he's gonna please himself, then why am I in the picture?
Christine O'Donnell— "IX: The Safest Sex of All", Sex in the 90s (MTV), 1996 Rayfield, Jill (14 September 2010), "Christine O'Donnell's 1996 Anti-Masturbation Campaign On MTV's 'Sex In The 90s' (VIDEO)", Talking Points Memo, retrieved on 2010-10-20 "Profile: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Senate candidate", BBC, 20 September 2010, retrieved on 2010-10-20
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Plutarch— Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.
The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise.
Xenophon— Hiero, I. 14. Watson's translation.
'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 160.
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto X, Stanza 60.
The hutzpah of our love is pleasing to you, O Lord, just as it pleased you that we should steal from your bounty.
— Hymns on Faith 16:5
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.
— Maxim 1075. (Sentences)
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
— Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.
Yet is it more honourable, and just, and upright, and pleasing, to treasure in the memory good acts than bad.
— Bk. 5, ch. 8; p. 179. (Anabasis)
[Jesus laughs as he watches his disciples offering a prayer to God before Passover.] Disciples: Why are you laughing at us? Jesus says that he is laughing not at them but at their strange idea of pleasing their God.
— Jesus to his disciples. See "Jesus Laughed" and "Judas Saves: Why the lost gospel makes sense".
How happy the lover, how easy his chain, how pleasing his pain. How sweet to discover, he sighs not in vain.
john dryden— John Dryden, King Arthur, IV. 1. Song.
