Pleasure Quotes:

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

- A. S. Byatt

source: FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

topic: Art, Doe, Pleasure

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

- Aaron Burr

source: "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.

topic: Life Is, Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

topic: Happiness, Way, Pleasure

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Two, Study, Pleasure

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Loss, No Friends, Pleasure

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

- Adrienne Monnier

source: Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Artist, Giving, Pleasure

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Pleasure, Given, Recollection

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Simple, World, Pleasure, Intimacy With God, Simple Pleasures

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.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Buddhist, Desire, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Wheels, Misery, Pleasure

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

- Al Gore

topic: Facts, Pleasure, Predictions

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

- Alain Prost

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Car, Pleasure

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

- Alan Bennett

topic: Pleasure, Duty

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

- Alan Watts

topic: Inspirational, Pleasure, Materials

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Speed, Modern, Pleasure

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Ignorance, Way, Pleasure

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Eye, Hands, Pleasure

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Evil, Pleasure, Understood

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Logic, Pleasure, Footsteps

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

topic: Gone, Pleasure, Characteristics

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

- Alexander the Great

topic: Toil, Pleasure, Please, Athenians

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Moments, Pleasure, Difficulty, Monte Cristo

The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.

- Alister MacKenzie

topic: Numbers, Pleasure, Holes

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

- Allen Carr

topic: Shoes, Smoking, Pleasure

The excess of pleasure is pain

- Almeida Garrett

topic: Pain, Excess, Pleasure

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

- Alvin Ailey

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dance, Dancer, Pleasure, Draining, Choreography

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Hateful, Pleasure, Form

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

- Amin Maalouf

source: Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

topic: Pleasure, States, Despise

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

- Amos Oz

topic: Reading, Imagine, Pleasure

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

- Andre Gide

topic: Action, Pleasure, Natural

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Love, Pleasure

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

- Andrew Michael Ramsay

topic: Intense, Pleasure, Increase

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

- Andrew the Apostle

topic: Philosophy, Goal, Pleasure

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

- Ang Lee

topic: Actors, Pleasure, Enjoy

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

- Angela Thirkell

source: Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

topic: Sweet, Noses, Pleasure, Peas, Sweet Peas

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

- Anita Diament

topic: Debt, Pleasure

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

- Anita Loos

source: Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

topic: Pleasure

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

- Ann Marie Buerkle

source: "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 4, 2011.

topic: Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Envy, Pleasure, Scales

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

- Anne Rice

topic: Pain, Pleasure

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

- Anne Rice

topic: Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

topic: Zest, Add, Pleasure

One always finds time for what one likes.

- Annie French Hector

topic: Likes, Pleasure

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

- Annie French Hector

topic: Reading, Pleasure

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Pleasure, Wells, Surprising, Clockwork

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

- Anthony Powell

source: Anthony Powell (2010). “The Acceptance World: Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.130, University of Chicago Press

topic: Want, Pleasure, Given, Want To See You

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

- Antisthenes

source: "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),

topic: Mad, Pleasure, Feels

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

- Aphra Behn

source: The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7

topic: Soul, Pleasure, Variety

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

- Aphra Behn

source: 1686 The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.

topic: Funny Love, Secret, Pleasure, No Love

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

- Aristippus

topic: Mastery, Abstinence, Pleasure

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

- Aristotle

topic: Pleasure

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

- Aristotle

topic: Bars, Pleasure, Jury

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

- Aristotle

topic: Pleasure, Insensible, Depraved

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Art, Pleasure

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

- Armand Salacrou

topic: Way, Pleasure, Economy, Spending Money

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Happiness, Way, Pleasure, Savoring

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Pain, Pleasure, Intensity, Pain And Pleasure, Pain Pleasure

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

- Arthur Adamov

source: Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”

topic: Pleasure, Passive

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

- Arthur Helps

source: Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

topic: Giving, Pleasure, Please

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

source: 'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 11

topic: People, Pleasure, Horrible

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Happiness, Pleasure, Repetition

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

- Augustine Birrell

source: Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

topic: Giving, Pleasure

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

topic: Virtue, Pleasure, Couches

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

- Baltasar Gracian

source: Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

topic: Regret, Men, Pleasure

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Friends, Teacher, Pleasure

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

- Balthus

topic: Art, Painting, Pleasure

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,

- Banjo Paterson

source: Banjo Paterson (2010). “Banjo Paterson Complete Poems”, p.33, HarperCollins Australia

topic: Pleasure

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

topic: People, Morality, Pleasure, Moral Indignation

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

- Barbara Pym

topic: Writing, Kind, Pleasure, Novel Writing

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Healthy, Pleasure, Preservation, Indulge Yourself

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

- Bela Lugosi

topic: Years, Actors, Pleasure

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Long, Treasure, Pleasure

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Men, Smoking, Pleasure, Cigarette Smoke, Pipe Smoking

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

- Benito Mussolini

topic: Giving, Pleasure, Honour

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Giving, Joy, Pleasure

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

- Benjamin Whichcote

topic: Perfection, Use, Pleasure

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Years, Realizing, Pleasure

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

- Bernard Bolzano

topic: Special, Pleasure, Mathematics

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

topic: Land, Feet, Pleasure

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

- Bernard Malamud

source: "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

topic: Writing, Revision, Pleasure

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Knowledge, Useless, Pleasure, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Gained

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Intelligent, Agreement, Pleasure

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

- Bidzina Ivanishvili

topic: Character, Pleasure

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

- Bill Griffith

source: "Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.

topic: Half, Pleasure

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

- Billy Collins

topic: Pleasure, Source

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

- Billy Collins

topic: People, Pleasure, Offers, What Is The Meaning

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

- Boris Spassky

topic: Doe, Chess, Pleasure, Fischer

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

- Bret Michaels

source: Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 11, 2009.

topic: Sometimes, Pleasure

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

- Brian Lumley

topic: Giving, Entertainment, Pleasure, Entertainment Business

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

- Brooke Shields

topic: Class, Knowing, Pleasure, Princeton

Learn to take pleasure in the search.

- Bryan Kest

topic: Pleasure

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

- Busy Philipps

topic: Believe, Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Way, Satisfaction, Pleasure

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Pain, Speak, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure, Joy And Pain

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Enough, Hours, Pleasure, Filling Up

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure, Pain Pleasure

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

- Carly Simon

topic: Trying, Shapes, Pleasure

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

- Carsten Jensen

topic: Stories, Strange, Pleasure, Strange Things

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

- Chanakya

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Pleasure

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

- Charles A. Reich

source: charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

topic: Forever, Pleasure, Denied

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Pleasure

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Artist, Pleasure, Deformity

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

- Charles Baudelaire

source: Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.263, Courier Corporation

topic: Hysteria, Pleasure, Terror, Vertigo

La volupte   unique et supre"  me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Unique, Evil, Pleasure

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Pleasure

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Years, History, Pleasure

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christian, Satisfaction, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Eye, Play, Pleasure

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

- Chester Bennington

topic: Tattoo, Pain, Pleasure

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Tired, Thinking, Pleasure, Thinking Of Others

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Pain, Want, Pleasure

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes

- Christoph Martin Wieland

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

topic: Long, Woe, Pleasure

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Fall, Pleasure, Faustus

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

- Chuck Close

topic: Photography, Photographer, Pleasure

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Death, Pleasure, Wanted, Obituary

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Hero, Littles, Pleasure

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Law, Pleasure, Theory

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

- Claude Monet

topic: Appreciate, Painting, Pleasure

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

- Clement Freud

topic: Long, Rubber, Pleasure

Be superior to pleasure.

- Cleobulus

topic: Good Life, Pleasure

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

- Colin Beavan

source: Colin Beavan (2011). “No Impact Man: Saving the planet one family at a time”, p.100, Hachette UK

topic: Important, Pleasure

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

- Crescent Dragonwagon

topic: Connections, Pleasure, Nourishment

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

- Cynthia Rylant

topic: Sometimes, Odd, Pleasure

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

- Dana Plato

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Honest, Being Honest, Pleasure

Pleasure is a thief to business.

- Daniel Defoe

source: 'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1

topic: Thieves, Pleasure

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

- Daniel Gilbert

topic: Pay, Pleasure, Spoil, Irresponsible

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

- Darren Criss

topic: Believe, Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

- David Berg

topic: Problem, Pleasure, Feeding

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

- David Berg

topic: Next, Pleasure, Wells, Suffering Pain, Physical Body

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

- David Brooks

topic: Pleasure

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

- David Guerrero

topic: Happiness, Pleasure, Committed

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

- David Platt

topic: Realization, Pleasure, Performances

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

- David Shore

topic: Friendship, Reason, Pleasure

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

- Dawn French

topic: Watches, Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Pain, Flow, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

- Delmore Schwartz

source: Delmore Schwartz (1985). “Letters of Delmore Schwartz”, Persea Books

topic: Suffering, Causes, Pleasure

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

- Democritus

topic: Moderation, Pleasure, Increase

Pleasure is everything.

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Pleasure

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

- Dionne Warwick

topic: Song, Pleasure, Performing

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

- Domenico Scarlatti

source: "Domenico Scarlatti: 30 Sonatas".

topic: Pleasure, Increase, Shows

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

- Don Cornelius

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Matter, Pleasure, Soul Train

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

- Don Davis

topic: Blessing, Pleasure, Trade

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

- Don Herold

topic: Believe, Belief, Pleasure, Sure Thing

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

- Donald Hall

topic: Integrity, Reading, Pleasure

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

- Donna Leon

source: "A Tale Of Two Cities: Author Donna Leon's Venice". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

topic: Pleasure, Persons

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

- Doreen Valiente

topic: Heart, Worship, Pleasure

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

- Doreen Valiente

topic: Pleasure, Acts Of Love, Ritual

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

- Dossie Easton

source: Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)

topic: Sex, Nice, Pleasure

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Wish, Easy, Pleasure

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

- Douglas Wilson

topic: Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

- E. L. James

topic: Pain, Broken, Pleasure, Inflicting Pain, Sadism

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Giving, Joy, Pleasure

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

- Edmond Rostand

topic: Moral, Pleasure, Manners

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Pleasure, Paine

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

- Edna Lewis

topic: Cooking, Pleasure, Good Food, Good Cook

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Adventure, Half, Pleasure, Reluctant, Half Hearted

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Spring, Crowds, Pleasure, Dissipation, Noisy

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

- Eiji Yoshikawa

topic: Wine, Pleasure, Courtiers

Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny.

- Eleanor Farjeon

topic: Pennies, Trouble, Pleasure

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

- Elena Ferrante

source: Elena Ferrante (2013). “The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels, Book Two”, p.419, Penguin

topic: Examination, Moments, Pleasure, Happy Moments

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Squares, Cities, Pleasure

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1045, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Mystery, Clue, Pleasure

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Sin, Pleasure, Committed

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

- Ellie Kemper

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Pleasure

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

- Emilia Lanier

source: 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'The Description of Cooke-ham'.

topic: Eye, Pleasure, My Thoughts, Sad Eyes

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Love, Mind, Pleasure, Literary Love, Cold Mountain

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

- Erastus Wiman

source: Erastus Wiman (2005). “Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy Man”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Positive, Cost, Pleasure

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

- Eric Jerome Dickey

source: Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Imagination, Pleasure, My Imagination

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

- Eric Weiner

topic: Want, Pleasure, Achieve

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

- Erin Morgenstern

source: "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

topic: Unexpected, Finest, Pleasure, Night Circus

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Vices, Pleasure, Financial Security

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

- Ernst Mach

topic: Pain, Different, Pleasure, Soma

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

topic: Years, Pleasure, Greatest Pleasures

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

- Euripides

topic: Love, Life, Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Pleasure Love

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

- Euripides

topic: Women, Sick, Pleasure

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

- Euripides

topic: Pleasure, Form, Variety

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

- Evan Esar

topic: Vacation, Nostalgia, Pleasure, Inspirational Vacation, Best Vacation

The ***** is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

- Eve Ensler

topic: Purpose, Body, Pleasure

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

- Fanny Burney

source: Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

topic: Complaining, Affliction, Pleasure

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

- Fanny Burney

topic: Mind, Pleasure, Dissipation

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

- Fanny Lewald

topic: Pleasure, Goodness, Doing Good, Pleasure Seeking, Haphazard

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

- Fay Weldon

topic: Pleasure

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

- Fergus Henderson

source: Fergus Henderson (2012). “The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking”, p.5, A&C Black

topic: Cooking, Ingredients, Pleasure

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

- Fernando Botero

source: "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Colombian Artist Fernando Botero" by Veronique de Miguel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

topic: Painting, Pleasure, Found

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: Work, Pay, Pleasure

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

- Francis Picabia

topic: Pain, Reason, Pleasure

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Prayer, Pleasure, Ends

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Giving, Pleasure, Should, Self-importance

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: People, Pay, Pleasure, Great Ones

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Men, Mysterious, Pleasure, Unleashing, Scapegoat

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.

- Francois Quesnay

source: "Economics, Modern Business". Book by J. D. Vassie, ‎Paul Chadburn, p. 137, 1935.

topic: Effort, Economic, Pleasure

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Arbitrary, Language, Pleasure

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

- Francoise Bertaut de Motteville

topic: Happiness, Way, Pleasure, Pleasure And Happiness, Found Happiness

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

- Francoise Sagan

topic: Way, Pleasure

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

- Francoise Sagan

source: FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

topic: Desire, Fear Of Love, Pleasure

Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.

- Frank Rijkaard

topic: Pleasure

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

- Fred Bear

topic: Animal, Hunting, Pleasure

Big voice, big heart - Mary Ellen Wessels is a pleasure to hear.

- Fred Small

topic: Heart, Voice, Pleasure

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

- Fred Willard

topic: Movie, Pleasure