Giving Pleasure Quotes
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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
— Isaac Asimov
The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
— Walter Darby Bannard
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
— Rumi
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
— Oscar Wilde
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
— Ibn Taymiyyah
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
— Charles Baudelaire
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
— Paulo Coelho
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
— Charles Baudelaire
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
— Adrienne Monnier
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
— Kahlil Gibran
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
— Anushka Sharma
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
— Muriel Spark
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.
— Woody Allen
I'm giving pleasure to you. Don't interfere.
— Olga Goa
Come, let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
— Bonaventure
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
— Albert Einstein
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.
— Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.
— Julie Newmar
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
— Robert Frost
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
— Victoria Glendinning
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
— Benito Mussolini
The inclination of my life ... has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
— Walt Disney
It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
— Charles E. McKenzie
Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
— Kenneth Clark
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
— Frank Butler
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
— Benjamin Franklin
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
— Peter Kreeft
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
— Sigmund Freud
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
— Edmund Landau
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need ... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
— Hayley Westenra
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
— Thomas Jefferson
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
— Radhanath Swami
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.
— Matthew Arnold
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.
— Patience Strong
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
— Mikhail Lermontov
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure
— Patrick Henry
The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.
— Bikram Choudhury
without giving her money or love and only occasionally pleasure
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
— Benjamin Franklin
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
— James Stewart
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation
— Jane Austen
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away
— Joanna Lumley
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
— Samuel Johnson
When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands - even if we don't feel like it - God will reward us with pleasure.
— Carolyn Mahaney
There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.
— Marina Anderson
True children of God experience pleasure in giving.
— Sunday Adelaja
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.
— Paolo Uccello
It's fun to give pleasure to people.
— Sheila Heti
Real love ... is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.
— Paul Auster
The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.
— Robert Ryman
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
— Ann Brashares
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never knownVerture and pleasure both to dwell in one. — Robert Herrick
I back up all my rules with discipline. So you'd be giving yourself over to me. Mine to punish. Mine to pleasure
— Renee Rose
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
What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.
— Julianne Moore
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
— Augustine Birrell
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.
— Marc Gafni
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
— Charles Baudelaire