Pleasure Quotes
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
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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.
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.
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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
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There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.
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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.
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Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
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If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
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Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
