Pleasure Quotes

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expe...

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year tha...

The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta...

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have ther...

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure pr...

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to ...

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word...

Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing...

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable bu...

...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every g...

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some swee...

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not kno...

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times wi...

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in c...

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for sol...

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasu...

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing a...

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, meas...

I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus," I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me, and...

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true ...

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx th...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the ...

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided...

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...

Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You travel...

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, a...

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not parti...

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as ...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...

Happiness is pleasure without regret

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But...

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experien...

He could see her, but dared not remain for fear of annoying her by seeming to be spying upon the ple...

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon ...

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, ...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling t...

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, ...

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separat...

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it woul...

... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the ple...

Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that eve...

Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that...

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is m...

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should hav...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments whi...

At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...

Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his se...

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek ...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence...

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's p...

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the r...

When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and leftthe apartment, I sometimes thought that ...

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flute...

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do...

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleas...

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered wit...

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you sho...