Top 26 Quotes About Pleasantry: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Pleasantry

#1. No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.

Elisa Albert

#2. She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?

John Burnham Schwartz

#3. The Eternal Smiler strode forth, handing her one, as well. I considered the psychology behind her smile and formed the conclusion that, despite its obvious coating of pleasantry, it was an understandable psychological decision.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#4. If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry.

Brian Spellman

#5. Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. The heart under your heart
is not the one you share
so readily so full of pleasantry
& tenderness

it is a single blackberry
at the heart of a bramble
or else some larger fruit
heavy the size of a fist

Craig Arnold

#7. All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Judith Crist

#8. The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

Roger L'Estrange

#9. All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

Voltaire

#10. Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Voltaire

#11. Aitisi nai poroja," replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, "Your mother fucks reindeer.

Thomas Pynchon

#12. Everyone's default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it's sometimes amazing what comes out of people.

Nathan Fielder

#13. Oh ... bank vaults," Leo said. "Never thought about that.

Rick Riordan

#14. It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

Guy Finley

#15. One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Hugh Laurie

#16. She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.

Joseph Fink

#17. I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

Tommy Lee Jones

#18. The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

Tony Ardizzone

#19. For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#20. Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Cory Doctorow

#21. If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.

Peter Kreeft