Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,… — Johann Joachim Becher Copy Share Image
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I have watched Brock Lesnar for a really long time and I thought I knew how strong he was, I thought I… — Seth Rollins Copy Share Image
Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure:… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children… — John Hawley Copy Share Image
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of… — James Naismith Copy Share Image
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am… — Stanley Spencer Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are… — Plato Copy Share Image
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
