If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
You will have a completely pleasant tomorrow if you accomplish your today work today — Sayed Habib Wardak Copy Share Image
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally,… — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
“A proper kiss, Miss Eversea, should turn you inside out. It should . . . touch places in you that you didn’t… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of… — Benoît Duteurtre Copy Share Image
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's the other team not even making one shot on goal. The thing that gives me the most pleasure is that my… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
“I will have you do things you never thought possible, but I can also bring you a pleasure you never imagined.” — Tara Sue Me Copy Share Image
It is wrong to show pleasure and celebrate the downfall of someone else. You have no idea what the future holds for… — Mir Anas Hossain Copy Share Image
The amount of pleasure I get from sneaking Waffle into hotels is not normal. — Audrey Kitching Copy Share Image
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
It is a sweetness or pleasure that if you are without it, life becomes a thing of worries and of pain. — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly. — Pindar Copy Share Image
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
