Pleasantry Words Quotes & Sayings

Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia. — Terry Pratchett

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing. — James MacDonald

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. — Adam Savage

I don't like expensive things ... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save. — Tyra Banks

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK. — Rita Mae Brown

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A writer observes. A writer records for posterity. The moments in the transience of the labyrinth of time that would go unrecorded otherwise! A writer records for value. A writer records for sentimentalism. A writer tries in earnest to carry the emotions and sentiments that make us what we ultimately are. For what are we? Empty spaces in an atom! — Avijeet Das

Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon." from Orthodoxy. — G.K. Chesterton

PBNP was Perdido Beach Nuclear Power. — Michael Grant

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board. — Randall Robinson

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go. — E. M. Forster

Think like the great,
speak like the great,
act like the great,
and you will become like the great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout

A fairy tale is one way to recount history. The — Michele Audin

I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter. — Margaret Atwood