Pleasure Quotes

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.