Ease Quotes

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. (Samuel Johnson)
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. View quote
William Blake
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. View quote
George Eliot
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. View quote
Alexander Pope
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell Thy fools no more I'll tease This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease. (Alexander Pope)
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function. View quote
Jonathan Ive
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. View quote
Joseph Addison
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. View quote
Jane Austen
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. View quote
Jane Austen
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. View quote
Helen Keller
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. (Ingrid Bergman)
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. View quote
William Wordsworth
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. View quote
Euripides
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. View quote
Hugh Laurie
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation. View quote
Émile Zola