Pleasing Quotes

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

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.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

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.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.