Pleasure Quotes

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.

When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.