Pleasing Quotes

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

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

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

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

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

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

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?

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.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.