My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Wolfman Jack

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Ellis Peters

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
Virgil

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
Arthur Phillip

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
John Updike

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
Robert Mitchum

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott