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))
May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
jane austen— 1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.14.
'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
...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.
Wideand undetermined prospects areas pleasing tothe fancy, as the speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding.
joseph addison— 1712 In The Spectator, no.412, 23 Jun.
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.
Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him.
Philip Doddridge— The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul.
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.
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.
'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)
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
— J.M. Barrie, The Greenwood Hat (1937)
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)
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.
