Pleasure Quotes
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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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.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering...
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
