Top 100 Pleasantly Quotes
#1. Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?
Stacey Turis
#2. What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?
Eoin Colfer
#3. My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly.
Mercedes Lackey
#4. Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational skills once it reached its teens.
Nell Zink
#5. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
William Arthur Ward
#6. The kind of woman who could pleasantly instruct you to fuck off, dear, and you immediately would because you'd just hate to disappoint her.
Neal Stephenson
#7. Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
Steve Martin
#8. The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.
Jenny Eclair
#9. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.
Auliq Ice
#10. To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'
The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.
A. Ashley Straker
#12. Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.
William C. Bryant
#13. Okay, we get it, Jodi-with-an-i," I said, smiling pleasantly up at her. "You have an adorable son and
are still quite available. Dennis, however, is with me. If you would just take your boobs out of my
boyfriend's face, I would deeply appreciate it.
Kristan Higgins
#14. I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
Karl Pilkington
#15. A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.
Andrea Bocelli
#16. The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
#17. The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A slackertorium.
Keith Gessen
#18. Things are different when you go back to them, they seem to have more power to enter into us more sadly, more deeply, more gently than before, to merge with the death which is slowly, pleasantly, sneakily growing inside us, and which we train ourselves to resist a little less each day.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#19. One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
George Santayana
#20. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.
Rocco DiSpirito
#22. Outside, the rain was still falling steadily; he could hear it pattering on the glass skylight at the far end of the room and cascading into the water-spouts. Inside, no one stirred; all were dozing like himself over their liqueur glasses, pleasantly conscious that they were in the dry.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#23. My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.
Frances Mayes
#24. [He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes.
Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere.
Jim Butcher
#25. He's putting a lot of cards down on the table," Trey said thoughtfully, taking a step forward. "And Matthias is never one to share something for free if he could charge for it."
"And you're not normally one to think for himself," Matthias said pleasantly. "I suppose we're all growing as people.
Scott Tracey
#26. The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
it comes or it lags behind,
It comes from its embowered garden
and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.
Walt Whitman
#27. We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry, cried the duchess, nodding pleasantly
Oscar Wilde
#28. I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.
Kim Kardashian
#29. Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.
Jim Furyk
#30. Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to ... But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.
Mark Oliver Everett
#31. Plan for the worst," Grue replied, staring into the distance, "If you're right, you're prepared. If you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
Wildbow
#32. Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
Margaret Mead
#33. I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.
Ellie Kemper
#35. Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.
'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.
L.M. Montgomery
#36. We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Epicurus
#37. There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
John Steinbeck
#38. I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
Tom Petty
#39. Hate is loud. Love, however, is so pleasantly felt it has no need to be heard.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp
#41. I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.
Tony Fadell
#42. I gave myself up
to my tears. It was as though my head had turned to clear water, it was
falling pleasantly away drop by drop; soon nothing would remain.
Yasunari Kawabata
#43. What is your principal characteristic, would you say?'
'Treacherousness,' said Danny, gloriously.
'That,' said Lymond pleasantly, 'is everyone's principal characteristic.
Dorothy Dunnett
#44. Hope was always creating pleasantly ideological, and therefore impossible things.
Sean DeLauder
#46. The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Kahlil Gibran
#47. I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.
Knut Hamsun
#48. I couldn't think how long it had been since I had read a novel. And in the daytime! Feeling pleasantly wicked, I sat by the open window in my surgery and resolutely entered a world far from my own.
Diana Gabaldon
#49. It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.
Margaret Mitchell
#50. A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.
Allie Brosh
#52. All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.
William James
#54. Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
Robert Hass
#55. On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#56. Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does.
Charles Dickens
#57. My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.
Michael Leunig
#58. Warraner looked pleasantly surprised at the question, like a Mormon who had suddenly found himself invited into a house for coffee, cake, and a discussion of the wit and wisdom of Joseph Smith.
John Connolly
#59. What was love if not a certain pleasantly deluded familiarity built up over years?
Julie Anne Long
#60. I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I've never smelled like anything before.
Tahereh Mafi
#61. For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.
Amor Towles
#62. Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin Crisp
#63. He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent.
Maggie Shipstead
#64. You'd eat a plate, and call it pleasantly crunchy.
Shannon Hale
#67. Her mind made great, panicked leaps between the mundane - He smells pleasantly of soap and witch hazel - and the practical: How could another human being weigh so much? Is he filled with rocks?
Jenn Bennett
#68. Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
Andrew Lang
#69. I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#70. We'll continue our discussion
later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room."
"That is not a wise idea, in my opinion," the earl said.
"I'm glad I didn't ask for it, then," Simon returned pleasantly
Lisa Kleypas
#71. He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits.
Lady Augusta Gregory
#72. Shit is another useful word. Also very common. For example, pleasantly surprised? You say 'No shit?' You think someone tells you tales, you scoff 'You're shitting me.' You find something you like very much, you exclaim 'That's good shit!
Jane Yolen
#73. It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
Edmund Burke
#74. Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.
Tyne O'Connell
#75. Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic. - The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
#76. Would you like some wine, or would you prefer to yell at me for a little longer?" asked the Beast pleasantly. "I could leave, if you prefer, but I generally hold that those who leave the room when you wish to yell at them are among the most despicable of beings.
T. Kingfisher
#77. You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice.
"On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.
Richelle Mead
#78. To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.'
Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?'
He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.
Emma Bull
#79. Sex is a fact of life ... and while it may lead to abuses ... no words need be spoken ... for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.
Hugo Black
#80. What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!
Susan Fenimore Cooper
#81. I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.
Lauren Faust
#82. A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight")
Daphne Du Maurier
#83. I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
Benjamin Franklin
#84. I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.
Ashley Tisdale
#85. Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see.
J.K. Rowling
#86. Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.
Alberto Manguel
#87. He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend,
a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently
divert and pleasantly entertain himself,
as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
Isaac Barrow
#88. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.
Nick Wechsler
#90. There's so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and 'don't go out there' and all that stuff. So I went out to L.A. and I was pleasantly surprised.
Josh Radnor
#91. All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
Thomas A Kempis
#92. I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer.
Andrew Luck
#93. occurred. But there was no denying it now, the evidence was all over him. The pleasantly warm flush to his normally sallow cheeks; the relaxed, almost rubbery way he leaned against the window - a stark contrast to his usual calcified, if slightly hunched posture; and most important
Ben Mezrich
#94. What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
Gabrielle Dubois
#95. All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
Leonard Carmichael
#96. A waltz begins, that floating, sweet rhythm. The fiddle is plaintive. A few minutes ago she was at least pleasantly contented. Now certain of the notes dip into her like ladles and come up full of loneliness. The people in the room recede. They are strangers, every one.
Anna Keesey
#97. Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
Lydia Davis
#98. I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy.
James Frain
#99. I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.
Woody Allen
#100. The torchlit garden was redolent with the colors and scents of autumn... gold and copper foliage, thick borders of roses and dahlias, flowering grasses and beds of fresh mulch that made the air pleasantly pungent.
Lisa Kleypas
