Pleasure Quotes · Page 71

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

— Alexander Pope

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

— Frederic Chopin

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm honest, may be some might feel that, I'm brutally honest and gets more pleasure in showing brutality than Honesty…

— Santanu Mishra

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort…

— Victoria Glendinning

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last…

— Roberto Bolaño

“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain…

— Washington Irving

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for…

— Jonathan Ames

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may…

— Edward Thorndike

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the…

— William Shenstone

Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and…

— Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and…

— Hiram Crespo

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If…

— David Hume

There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot…

— John Lindsay

Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force ,…

— William Shakespeare

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds…

— Elizabeth Carter

What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and…

— Ian Hornak

You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a…

— Sarah Caudwell

“God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its…

— Tahir Shah

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

— Samuel Johnson

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

— Harriet McBryde Johnson

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

— Frederick Lenz

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

— Joyce Brothers

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits…

— Maria Edgeworth

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

— Douglas Hurd

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

— Lord Byron

“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

— Roger Federer

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

— George Plimpton

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

— Bible