Pleasure Quotes · Page 120

It's the other team not even making one shot on goal. The thing that gives me the most pleasure is that my…

— Ruben Dias

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

— Katherine Mansfield

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

— Lawrence Durrell

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort…

— Victoria Glendinning

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

— Frederic Chopin

I'm honest, may be some might feel that, I'm brutally honest and gets more pleasure in showing brutality than Honesty…

— Santanu Mishra

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

— Harriet McBryde Johnson

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…

— George Santayana

Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having…

— MC Lyte

Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it…

— Otis Chandler

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them…

— William Shakespeare

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength…

— Simone de Beauvoir

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one…

— Elizabeth David

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have…

— Simon Schama

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty…

— Bartholomew Roberts

I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it…

— David E. Cooper

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it…

— Lord Chesterfield

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and…

— Grace Paley

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross…

— Anonymous

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave…

— Cornel West

After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I…

— Hugh Hefner

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high…

— Jane Austen

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

— Frederick Lenz

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

— Samuel Johnson

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its…

— Tahir Shah

“God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits…

— Maria Edgeworth

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

— Joyce Brothers

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

— Roger Federer

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

— Lord Byron

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

— Douglas Hurd

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Irrfan is a very normal, laidback, regular guy. It has always been a pleasure and great fun working with him.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

— Richard Sennett

One of life's most simple pleasures is spending time with those we love...

— Ash Sweeney