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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. — Colleen McCullough

I take pleasure in an excellent work done. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. — Kelly Reichardt

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many. — Alexander McCall Smith

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? — Arthur Conan Doyle

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. — Holly Near

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. — Edmund Burke

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures. — Mason Cooley

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. — Jane Pauley

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts. — Karolina Kurkova

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure. — Cara Buono

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. — Plutarch

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. — Joseph Addison

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. — Tobsha Learner

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure — Oscar Wilde

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. — Thomas Mann

Writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. — Umberto Eco

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger. — Philip Yancey

With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them. — Michael Cisco

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends? — C.S. Lewis

Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure. — Angela Merkel

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure. — Jerzy Kukuczka

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible. — Stefan Hell

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. — Euripides

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived. — Ernie J Zelinski

Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.' — Sigrid Agren

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food. — Gayle King

... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do. — Melinda Salisbury

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

One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. — Evangeline Lilly

If something can bring you great pleasure, it can also bring you pain. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it. — Janeane Garofalo

I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it. — Patricia Highsmith

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. — Carl Linnaeus

Pleasure is the most real good in this life. — Frederick The Great

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. — Christopher Lambert

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

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage. — Toni Servillo

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. — Pope Paul VI

The great source of pleasure is variety. — Samuel Johnson

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. — Martin Heidegger

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments. — Rene Descartes

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. — Robert South

It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure. — Margery Fish

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. — Robert Mondavi

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico. — Lorena Ochoa

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. — John Dryden

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick The Great

What a great pleasure to work for your living? — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I. — Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. — Frederick The Great

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. — Jane Austen

To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure. — Alain Ducasse

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains. — David Hume

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. — Geraldo Rivera

A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't. — Paulo Coelho

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — George Gordon Byron

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

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried. — Hillary Clinton

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. — Alex Trebek

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. — James Boswell

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree. — John Connolly

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. — Jerry Smith

What did you think the answer would be, Elisabeth? I toy with you because I can. Because it gives me great pleasure. Because I was bored. — S. Jae-Jones

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. — Terry Gross

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it. — Morrissey

I am not a great reader and I have pleasure in many things. — Jane Austen

That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure".
"Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid. — Kristina Douglas

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. — Horace

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created. — Anders Hejlsberg

Simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated. — Ethan Hawke

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. — Samuel Johnson

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure. — Joe Paterno

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you — Brother Lawrence

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter — Tacitus

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs ... the ocean ... and love. — William Shatner

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth. — John Bunyan

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. — Suzanne Curchod

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus