One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity. It's there in the things we do… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“People who are entitled delude themselves into whatever feeds their sense of superiority. They keep their mental facade standing at all costs,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I have watched Brock Lesnar for a really long time and I thought I knew how strong he was, I thought I… — Seth Rollins Copy Share Image
How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
