Pleasing

Famous quotes containing the word pleasing:

    No expectation fails there,
    No pleasing habit ends,
    No man grows old, no girl grows cold,
    But friends walk by friends.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with champagne. JOHNSON. “No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened.”
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)