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
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Elspeth reached up a tentative hand to comfort him, palming the cheek that wasn’t covered with woad. He wrapped an arm around… — Connie Mason 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
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
