Thomas Dewar Quotes

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Thomas Dewar

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

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • States
  • Over

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

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

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Pleasure
  • Kindness
  • Love Is

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Life
  • Powerful
  • States

• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• Caught between the tongue and the taste.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Taste
  • Tongue
  • Caught

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• 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

• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• 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

• 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

• Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Realizing

• I was very productive as a senator for my state.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • States
  • Productive
  • Senators

• Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Wealth

• I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Right
  • Pleasure
  • Scandalize

• I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

  

  Elizabeth Heyert
  • Fashion
  • Imagination
  • Woman

• What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And then, if I say yes, I read it again, only this time I take a pen and, inside the book, I say, "Okay, this is a scene. I don't need this. I'm going to try this. I'm not going to take this." And then, I use that book like a bible and each chapter heading, I write a menu of what's in that chapter, in case I ever need to reference it. And then, I start to outline and write it. I get in there and it starts to evolve, based on having re-read it again.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Evolve

• No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Revolution
  • Gloves

• Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

  

  Tony Iommi Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Week
  • Three

• Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

  

  Karl-Henrik Robert
  • Economic
  • Inspiring
  • Essentials

• Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Pleasure
  • States
  • Caught