Pleasure Quotes · Page 31

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

— Ambrose Bierce

I always feel pleasure while introducing new talent.

— Naga Chaitanya

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

— Joan Rivers

Learn to take pleasure in the search.

— Bryan Kest

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

— Delmore Schwartz

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— John Ruskin

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

— Marina Warner

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

— Charles Baudelaire

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's…

— Sienna Miller

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

— John D. Rockefeller

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

— George Sand

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in…

— Holly Black

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

— Rumi

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure…

— Oscar Wilde

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves.…

— Rumi

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life…

— Philip Larkin

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes…

— Margaret Mahy

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute…

— Roland Barthes

You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were…

— Lauren Kate

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being…

— Alan Alda

I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that…

— Avi

Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they…

— Vera Chytilova

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“The "pleasure" of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of consciousness. And so are the kind of…

— Ayn Rand

“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I…

— Abhaidev

Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in…

— Ronald Ross

There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a…

— Stephen Dunn

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

— Publilius Syrus

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

— Ann Marie Buerkle

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

— Edmond Rostand

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

— Annie French Hector

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

— Dossie Easton

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

— John Donne

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

— Henry James

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

— Sofia Vassilieva