“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Do you always mix business and pleasure?” She flashed her most alluring smile. "Miss Stockton, when you own an inn, your business… — J.M. Maxim Copy Share Image
What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have crossed Suarez on the field and it was a pleasure. He is a great forward and that always means a… — Giorgio Chiellini Copy Share Image
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel,… — Plato Copy Share Image
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us… — Abraham Clark Copy Share Image
“Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion,… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Do you think I'm going to live until 100? I'll have to, maybe Bono can arrange that. That would be interesting. Hey… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of… — Todd English Copy Share Image
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I love to see what they [Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton] wear but I am not interested. It’s not natural. If you… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement;… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you… — Michael Kennedy Copy Share Image
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
![“I love to see what they [Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton] wear but I am not interested. It’s not natural. If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.” quote by Olivier Theyskens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/314/olivier-theyskens-12232_dressed_i-love-to-see-what-they-michelle-obama-a_92662.jpg)
