What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! — Hannah More Copy Share Image
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I cut the cord for my son, which was a tremendous pleasure, though Ive never eaten calamari since. — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Killing a man is indeed a pleasure unmatched in this world. Perhaps it’s a pleasure we could share.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the… — Abhijeet Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love,… — Harold Norse Copy Share Image
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed… — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“To look at him was to want him. To see him was to ache to touch him. He had been built to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.” — Jestoni Revealed Copy Share Image
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal… — Christopher John Farley Copy Share Image
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable… — Michael Owen Copy Share Image
If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
