Pleasure Quotes
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
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My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.
Nathan Fillion
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.
Euripides
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Zane Grey
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Plato
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It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
Don Cornelius
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
Karl Abraham
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There is the type of pleasure that can only be found by going through hard times.
Sho Sakurai Arashi
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Rachel Bilson
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna
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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.
Oscar Wilde
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
Felicity Huffman
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Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
Mireille Guiliano
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
Jane Austen
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Rachael Ray
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Ernst Mach
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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Harrison Ford