“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself —… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Cheese, in any form, is my guilty pleasure. I would rather have a cheese platter for dinner than any meal. There's nothing… — Christine Taylor Copy Share Image
What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind. — Andrei Chikatilo Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you should stop trying to please everyone and just focus on pleasing yourself. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them,… — Fanny Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Coloured lights splintered behind my eyes. For a few brief, blissful moments, all thought, all memory, dissolved like sugar in water. I… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis Copy Share Image
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Problem solving is hunting. It's a savage pleasure and we're born to it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.” — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day. — Ronan Keating Copy Share Image
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him). — John Piper Copy Share Image
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. — Simon May Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
