Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • World
  • God
  • Dream

• Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Pleasure
  • Kindness
  • Love Is

• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Disappointment

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Pleasure

• Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Value
  • Human

• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Sex
  • Pleasure
  • Lover

• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Regret
  • Remorse

• when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

  

  Galen Beckett
  • Pleasure
  • Making
  • Priorities

• ...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Fortune
  • Ill
  • Troublesome

• Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

  

  William Poundstone
  • Simple
  • Imagination
  • Mythology

• Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Pleasure
  • Hours