Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Business first, then pleasure.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.