Easily Pleased Quotes

#1. There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

John Piper

#3. I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

Rita Rudner

#4. We are far too easily pleased.

John Piper

#5. It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it.

Henry James

#6. Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis

#7. The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Mark Nepo

#8. The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

Susan Ertz

#9. If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

Len G. Murray

#10. Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile. You better get on with your living and forget 'bout that hurt.

Bernice L. McFadden

#11. Do you think that's a good idea, sir?'
'Yes, sergeant, I do. It was one of mine.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

Jim Ramstad

#13. Sometimes we have to fall down before we can stand up.

Liesl Shurtliff

#14. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Amitav Ghosh

#15. When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Madeleine Albright

#16. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

#17. As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

Samuel Johnson

#18. An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

John Barrasso

#19. I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Simon Cowell

#20. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Wallace Stegner

#22. How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

Mark Haddon