The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Fashion is an ultimate luxury - I mean, you don't need it - so it should bring you pleasure and make you… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as… — William Law Copy Share Image
The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I try to schedule at least one day a week to catch up, to feel like I'm breathing again. I take vitamins.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for… — Theophane Venard Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure,… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize… — Erika Mathews Copy Share Image
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out… — Olivia Hussey Copy Share Image
For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around,… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
