Pleasure Quotes · Page 111

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

— Anonymous

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted…

— John James Audubon

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever…

— Oliver Goldsmith

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

— George Herbert

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

— John Keats

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

— Philip Yancey

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

— Slavoj Žižek

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work…

— Kiki Dee

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and…

— Lancelot Andrewes

I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn…

— Christopher Hampton

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making…

— Dean Koontz

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity…

— Josiah Royce

'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a…

— David Hepworth

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no…

— Solange Knowles

“Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…

— David Graeber

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…

— Anthony Giddens

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer…

— Petrarch

The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships…

— James W. Prescott

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I…

— Lorin Stein

Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's…

— Italo Calvino

No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you…

— Sathya Sai Baba

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never…

— Winston Churchill

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

— J. K. Rowling

Dont play with another man's treasure cause you might lose your pleasure. Thats the measure one would take in defending his treasure.

— Frank Matobo

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

— Benjamin Franklin

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

— Michel de Montaigne

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

— Nora Roberts

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

My pleasure comes from doing my job in the best possible way. Whether it is at Chelsea or Juventus or Watford, it…

— Gianluca Vialli

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

— Anonymous

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

— Lena Headey

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

— Beth Moore

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

— W. S. Gilbert

For me it's a pleasure to be trained by Zidane. I am just very thankful for all he has been asking me…

— Casemiro

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

— Martin Heidegger

I can help you change tired moments into pleasure, say the word and we'll be well upon our way.

— Tool