Pleasure Quotes
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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
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Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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I don't make music to win awards. I learned a long time ago that the biggest pleasure I can have is hearing people sing my songs.
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
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What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
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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.
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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
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A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
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I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
