Pleasures Quotes

The most unnatural of the sexual pleasures.

— Anonymous

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

— Jude Morgan

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

— Alison Goldfrapp

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

— Laurie Colwin

“I never measure the size of my pleasure.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

— Jane Austen

Think big thoughts, relish small pleasures.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

— Stanislaw Lem

“The ego is the cancer of the soul. It feeds on the pleasures of the reputation.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“One of the pleasures of adulthood is saying nothing when you have nothing to say.”

— Mary-Claire van Leunen

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

— Horace

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

— Richard Whately

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

— Benjamin Franklin

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

— Hillary Clinton

“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…

— George Santayana

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having…

— Leigh Hunt

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

— Benjamin Franklin

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick…

— Mae West

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

— Nicholas Kristof

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

— Madame de Stael

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book,…

— Simon Hoggart

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will…

— Russell Smith

“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid…

— Sam Harris

“When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after…

— Ayn Rand

The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our…

— Michael Huffington

“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I…

— Roman Payne

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy…

— Aristotle

“Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I…

— John Green

“The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do: My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two. But oh, my…

— A.E. Housman

“The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man…

— C.S. Lewis

“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of…

— Rebecca Mead

“As the long limousine purred to life Edwina felt as if she were Elizabeth, setting sail to battle the Spanish Armada. She…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects…

— Thomas More

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,…

— Roman Payne

“Before you came to live with us, our lives were as always, and we were happy. We worked, we ate, and then…

— Robert Murphy

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his…

— James Goldsmith