Pleasure Quotes

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.

He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.