Pleasure Quotes

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.