Pleasure Quotes
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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
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I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.
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A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
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Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
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Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
