#pleasant

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bad #good #good manners #manners #ones

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ↗

— William John Wills

#been #camels #disappointed #even #fact

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume. ↗

— William John Wills

#assume #barren #beautiful #believe #could

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#i #locked #out #perhaps #thought

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#guilt #i #life #pleasant #rarely

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#employment #live #man #poet #unpleasant

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. ↗

— Matt Groening

#frightened #go #i #just #like

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that. ↗

— Derek Landy

#mood-swing #skulduggery-pleasant #death

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. ↗

— Horace

#everyone #gains #mixes #pleasant #useful

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than