Pleasure Quotes · Page 16

My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.

— April Pearson

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

— Noel Coward

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

— Samuel Johnson

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

— Oscar Wilde

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

— George Santayana

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

— Confucius

I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.

— Zoe Kazan

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

— John Dryden

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them…

— Garth Nix

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

— Rita Dove

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

— Bruce Lee

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the…

— John Calvin

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men.…

— Diana Vreeland

If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in…

— Robert Pinsky

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes…

— Giacomo Casanova

Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death…

— Christine Feehan

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the…

— David Sedaris

My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of…

— Roger Zelazny

“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a…

— Roger Kimball

“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,…

— Oriana Fallaci

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one…

— Toni Morrison

Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before…

— Marianne de Pierres

Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my…

— Rodney Yee

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use…

— Paulo Coelho

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

— John Dryden

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

— Aldous Huxley

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

— Horace

“She's a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else.”

— Jane Austen

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

— Fanny Burney

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

— Don Davis

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

— Samuel Johnson