#pleasant

The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car. ↗

— Derek Landy

#pleasant #skulduggery #funny

The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing. ↗

— Derek Landy

#hobbies #humor #skulduggery-pleasant #death

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#important #less #many #our #part

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#certainty #condition #doubt #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

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

— Matt Groening

#frightened #go #i #just #like

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

— Horace

#everyone #gains #mixes #pleasant #useful