quotes about Pleasure
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
-- A. S. ByattSource : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
-- Aaron BurrSource : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.
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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 -
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 -
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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 -
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
-- Adrienne MonnierSource : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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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.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
-- Al Gore -
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
-- Alain ProstSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
-- Alan Bennett -
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
-- Alan Watts -
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
-- Alexander Pope -
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
-- Alexander Pope -
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
-- Alexander Smith -
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
-- Alexander SmithSource : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
-- Alexander the Great -
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.
-- Alister MacKenzie -
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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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
-- Alvin AileySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
-- Amin MaaloufSource : Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller
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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 -
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 -
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.
-- Andre Maurois -
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay -
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If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.
-- Andrew the Apostle -
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
-- Ang Lee -
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
-- Angela ThirkellSource : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
-- Anita Diament -
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
-- Anita LoosSource : Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
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I really don't have a guilty pleasure.
-- Ann Marie BuerkleSource : "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 4, 2011.
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There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
-- Anne Rice -
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
-- Anne Rice -
Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles -
One always finds time for what one likes.
-- Annie French Hector -
[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
-- Annie French Hector -
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As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
-- Anthony Burgess -
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Acceptance World: Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.130, University of Chicago Press
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I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.
-- AntisthenesSource : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
-- Aphra BehnSource : The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
-- Aphra BehnSource : 1686 The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
-- Aristippus -
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
-- Aristotle -
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When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
-- Aristotle -
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
-- Aristotle -
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
-- Aristotle -
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
-- Armand Salacrou -
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The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
-- Arnold Bennett -
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
-- Arthur AdamovSource : Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
-- Arthur HelpsSource : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
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The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
-- Arthur Hugh CloughSource : 'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 11
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
-- Augustine BirrellSource : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
-- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne -
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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 GracianSource : Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.71, Shambhala Publications
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Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
-- Balthus -
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,
-- Banjo PatersonSource : Banjo Paterson (2010). “Banjo Paterson Complete Poems”, p.33, HarperCollins Australia
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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 -
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
-- Barbara Pym -
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
-- Bela Lugosi -
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
-- Ben Jonson -
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 -
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
-- Benito Mussolini -
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
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 -
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
-- Bernard Bolzano -
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 -
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
-- Bernard MalamudSource : "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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 -
I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.
-- Bidzina Ivanishvili -
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Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
-- Bill GriffithSource : "Questions for Griffy". Interview with Gary Panter, www.tcj.com. March 21, 2012.
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...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
-- Billy Collins -
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 -
There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!
-- Boris Spassky -
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Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.
-- Bret MichaelsSource : Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 11, 2009.
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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
-- Brian Lumley -
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 -
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
-- Busy Philipps -
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
-- C. S. Lewis -
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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 -
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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
-- Carly Simon -
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
-- Carsten Jensen -
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 -