Pleasure Quotes
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The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.
Norman Spinrad
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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare
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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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If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.
Angela Thirkell
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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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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
Stephen Greenblatt
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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
Vita Sackville-West
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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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Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.
Michael Pollan
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The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Wanda Landowska
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
Erica Jong
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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
Oscar Wilde
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All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.
Anthony Robbins
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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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What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?
Helen Keller
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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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God made all pleasures innocent.
Caroline Norton
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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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When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.
Geraldine Chaplin
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
Dante Alighieri