Pleasure Quotes · Page 121

When you haven't played for more than six months, scoring is the ultimate pleasure. It's ecstasy.

— Robert Pires

“They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.”

— Angel Cox

“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.”

— Anthony Powell

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

— Ambrose Bierce

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

— Georges Bernanos

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

— Bette Ford

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

— Sophocles

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,…

— Wendell Berry

It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I…

— Joe Nichols

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs…

— Michael Gira

The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His…

— Brother Lawrence

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of…

— Paul McCabe

I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like…

— Henry Kravis

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act…

— Vivien Leigh

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances…

— Pope Pius XII

The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the…

— Al-Ghazali

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form…

— Peter Kreeft

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as…

— Ramakrishna

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit…

— Anne Fadiman

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

— Samuel Johnson

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of…

— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

— Pierre Charron

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

— David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

At Corinthians, I had the pleasure to play with Ronaldo who also taught me a lot.

— Paulinho

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

— Agnes Obel

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying…

— John Fowles

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

— Horace

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

— Aldo Leopold

Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure.

— Dan Ariely

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

— Eric Weiner

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I maybe such a pain in the ass, But in a good way. I give you pleasure at the same time!”

— Arzum Uzun

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

— Roy Acuff

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

— Anna Soubry

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

— Terry Pratchett