Pleasure Quotes

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

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

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

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

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.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

economy spoils pleasure

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.