Best pleasure & surprise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page”

Thinking Way Littles Book Happens Pleasure Interesting Style Pages Surprise Sentences Things Happen Surprising

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.”

Mind Pleasure Style Please Benefits Surprise Unexpected

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.”

Would Be Pleasure Impossible Higher Paid Surprise All Time Estimation Deference

Book:Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

“Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.”

Facts Lasts Pleasure Minutes Surprise Lists Genre Dropping Deadline Combining Superb Last Minute

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

Pleasure Inspiring Surprise Foolish Jane Inconvenience Pleasant Surprises

Author:Jane Austen

“The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.”

Giving Feelings Literature Pleasure Surprise Favors Pleasant Worthless Pleasant Surprises

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.”

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