“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The pleasure of romance in dark is 10 times than when the light is on :P — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Copy Share Image
When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness,… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny. — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment. — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.” — Mia P Copy Share Image
Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game. — William C. Brown 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
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The progress of a person is possible with the pleasure of pain than pleasure alone or lone pain. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Food is a fantastic thing. It's my last joy, my last weakness, my guilty pleasure. I can have an ice-cream or burger… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
I walked a mile with Pleasure She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Believe me, I take absolutely no pleasure being inside your... You call this a house? — Lucius Malfoy Copy Share Image
