Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
You make love for the pleasure and the passion and for the love that two people have for each other. But then… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius Copy Share Image
On a global picture, if you look at the evolution of the shopping business model, many consumers tend to ask for faster… — Laure Heriard-Dubreuil Copy Share Image
“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sway’s an idiot who didn’t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isn’t that your job? (Devyn) No. I’m… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“His fingers trailed a path on her skin down her back. “Have I found a pleasure spot?” he asked while tugging her… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing the things people say you couldn't do or had doubts about you doing, never give… — Chris Kings Copy Share Image
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
