Pleasure Quotes
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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
— Al Gore
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
— Charles Dickens
And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.
— Seneca.
Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.
— Gabrielle Zevin
You are hoping to master the experience. The pain is what we know. It's our barometer of reality. We never trust pleasure.
— Stephanie Danler
The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.
— Peter Mayle
I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
— Cara Buono
Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.
— Matt Haig
We were very happy' - it was such a pleasure to voice these things, she wished there were more words. 'Very happy
— Rachel Joyce
The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.
— Christiane Northrup
My fellow Ruby Rogue Katrina Owen talks about "therapeutic refactoring", refactoring just for the sheer pleasure of it.
— Anonymous
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
— Mireille Guiliano
Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.
— Theodore Tilton
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
— Walter Savage Landor
There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
— Rachel Bilson
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
— Jacob Needleman
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
— Auguste Rodin
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.
— Dada Bhagwan
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
— B.C. Forbes
As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.
— Dada Bhagwan
Masturbation is pleasure without cost. So how might you make people pay?
— Christopher S. Hyatt
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.
— Baris Gencel
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
— Arthur Helps
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
— Voltaire
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
— Shane MacGowan
Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.
— Lori Hatcher
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
— Aristotle.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
— Cat Stevens
I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended
— Wallace Stegner
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
— Jerry Smith
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
— Virginia Woolf
It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
— Susan Sontag
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
— Paulo Coelho
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
— Vivienne Westwood
The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.
— Billy Graham
As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
— Harper Lee
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming
Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.
— Fennel Hudson
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
— Virginia Woolf
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known.
— Christina Lauren
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
— Bertrand Russell
Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure
because goodness makes you feel more alive. — Susan Neiman
because goodness makes you feel more alive. — Susan Neiman
Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I had sold my soul for pleasure.
— Judy Collins
Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.
— John Updike
Love is the pain of pleasure," I forced between sniveling sobs, "and pain is the pleasure of love.
— Courtney Lane
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
— Susan Sontag
Good God. She was Wellington with eyelashes.
— Julie Anne Long
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
— Rebecca Solnit
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
— George Herbert
There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.
— Marina Anderson
Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.
— Susan Block
People aren't supposed to get pleasure out of the destruction Mother Nature is capable of, but we want to stare anyway
— Colleen Hoover
Peace through Pleasure
— Susan Block
Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.
— Dada Bhagwan
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wish I could say I will take no pleasure in this, but if my husband has taught me anything, it's to be unapologetic.
— Karina Halle
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
— Marquis De Sade
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
— Yanni
... 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
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
— Alister E. McGrath
It's okay with us," Dannon said, and now there was something in his eye, a little spark of pleasure, a job well done. Lucas thought, This isn't good.
— John Sandford
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
— Jonathan Ames
All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?
— Mark Gatiss
He told her, You are a wise woman.
Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I? — Thea Harrison
Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I? — Thea Harrison
It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
— Samuel Johnson
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
— Seneca The Younger
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
— Thomas Jefferson