Pleasure Quotes

economy spoils pleasure

— Giacomo Casanova

Pleasure must be found in study.

— Paul Cezanne

Having a son is not all pleasure.

— Yoko Ono

It's your pleasure to meet me.

— Nikhil Saluja

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

— George Santayana

“What a pleasure to read!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Praying is the purest pleasure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Part of the pleasure is the pain.”

— Maya Banks

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

— Susanna Centlivre

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

— Samuel Johnson

“I am not a great reader and I have pleasure in many things.”

— Jane Austen

“Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure.”

— Jane Austen

Having my friends close to me is always a pleasure, a great honour.

— Dani Alves

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

— Anonymous

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

— Aristotle

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

— Oscar Wilde

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

— Arnold Bennett

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

— Samuel Johnson

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

— Alaa Al Aswany

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the…

— Anonymous

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

— Philip Massinger

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are…

— George Carey

Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have…

— Steven Erikson

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go…

— Emily Dickinson

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender…

— Lysander Spooner

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…

— Roland Barthes

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste…

— Matthew Henry

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things.…

— Byron Katie

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;…

— Anthony Capella

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and…

— Robert Farrar Capon

But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one…

— Sov8840

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me…

— James Lecesne

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring,…

— Tarthang Tulku

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?…

— Josef Joffe