Pleasure Quotes · Page 13

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

— Peter Mayle

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

— Ryan Holiday

“Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.”

— Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

— Kristen Ashley

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

— Virgil

“Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

You have to give people the pleasure of giving you.

— Rob Reiner

The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.

— Franklin Foer

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only…

— Garth Greenwell

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

— Nicole Brossard

“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.”

— Amitav Chowdhury

The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be…

— David Berg

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

— Julia Child

Love Hurts Pleasure Burns And Pain Heals Which Could You Not Live WithOut

— Raven Grant

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or…

— Nir Eyal

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that…

— Michel de Montaigne

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…

— Joseph Addison

I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go…

— Robert Cormier

God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand,…

— Anonymous

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing…

— Siri Hustvedt

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and…

— Samuel Johnson

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and…

— Cyril Connolly

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness…

— Francois Fenelon

In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind…

— John Zachary Young

My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you…

— Caterina Scorsone

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what…

— Wayne White

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from…

— William McFee

Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't…

— Bill Maher

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

— Lara Pulver

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

— Groucho Marx

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

— Soren Kierkegaard

All that I love loses half its pleasure if u r not there to share it.

— Anonymous

“Oh! Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.”

— Oscar Wilde

“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”

— Sari Gilbert

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

— Aphra Behn