Pleasure Quotes

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.