How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.” — Annabel Joseph Copy Share Image
“Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I’ll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning." - Drew Evans” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I like to fuck. Hard. I like to fuck slowly. I also enjoy making love. I like to be pleasured. I love… — Kathryn Perez Copy Share Image
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure to see your name in the list of players that Barca want. — Ousmane Dembele Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image