Pleasure Quotes
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It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
William Cowper Prime
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Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali
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I became disenchanted. My first impression, that of finding myself part of a fearless battle, passed. The trepidation at every exam and the joy of passing it with the highest marks had faded. Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.
Elena Ferrante
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Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
Barbara Holland
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Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
William Shakespeare
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Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.
Michael Pollan
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The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
Charles Dickens
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The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.
Norman Spinrad
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It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Emily Eden
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The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
Allen Carr
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
William Butler Yeats
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
Ernest Hemingway
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Norton Juster
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare
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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.
Todd Solondz
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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
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God made all pleasures innocent.
Caroline Norton
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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
Oscar Wilde
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
Mahatma Gandhi
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
Elena Ferrante
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The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.
Stephen Greenblatt