Pleasure Quotes

Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the computer and the pleasure is gone.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

Learn to take pleasure in the search.

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.

The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.