Pleasure Quotes
If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.
Eva Hoffman
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley
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.
William Shenstone
Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
R. M. Williams
What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.
Anthony Robbins
Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.
Elena Ferrante
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Honore de Balzac
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
William Cowper
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
Edmund Landau
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
Philip James Bailey
The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever. While they're leaving, give them a crazy laugh and say, 'It was a meet to pleasure you'.
Dan Cummins
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures lost, it may seem hard and threatening. But when the cross is weighed in the balances with the glorious treasures to be had through it, even the cross seems sweet.
Walter J Chantry
It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore de Balzac
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
Edgar Allan Poe
