Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is c...ommendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that... she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She found his manners very pleasing indeed.--The little flaw of having a Mistress now living with him at Ashdown Park, seems ...to be the only unpleasing circumstance about him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infin...itely more successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, ...to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just as ...easily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing ...as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »