Pleasure Quotes · Page 128

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

— John Connolly

I feel Hansa is an evergreen character which has been a sheer pleasure to perform.

— Supriya Pathak

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

— Arthur Ransome

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

— Aldous Huxley

“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has…

— Albert Camus

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

— Anonymous

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

— Anonymous

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and…

— Harvey Keitel

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Outer pleasure and pain is under the control of ‘Scientific circumstantial evidences’ and to have the inner peace [inner pleasure] is the…

— Dada Bhagwan

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair…

— Benjamin Franklin

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his…

— Ernest Hemingway

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of…

— Bertrand Russell

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before…

— Jean Michel Jarre

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though…

— Lord Byron

There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that…

— Dalai Lama

“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are…

— Germaine Greer

Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her…

— Camille Paglia

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him…

— Bill Brandt

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which…

— Albert Einstein

When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff…

— Stephen Merchant

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness,…

— Simon Pegg

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security…

— Samuel Johnson

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

— Anonymous

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

— Gottfried Leibniz

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what…

— Fernando Pessoa

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.”

— Criss Jami

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps…

— William Hazlitt

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

— Harper Lee

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

— Roland Emmerich

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

— Virginia Woolf

“It was a profound pleasure to her not to know what was coming next, provided some one whom she loved did.”

— George MacDonald

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought…

— Ernest Hemingway

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than…

— Alice Walker

But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

— Edward Young

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

— John Ashbery