Pleasure Quotes

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.