Pleasure Quotes · Page 51

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

— William Hazlitt

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

— Rachael Ray

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

— Andrea Dworkin

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

— Toni Servillo

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

— Radhanath Swami

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

— Louise Labe

It's an honor and a pleasure to be heard.

— Sixto Rodriguez

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

— John Piper

Ladies, be careful. Don't give a man sex just to keep him around, because it might just do the exact opposite.

— Charlie Butcher

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

— William Ernest Henley

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

— Matthew Sharpe

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

— Anonymous

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

— Richard Louv

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

— Samuel Johnson

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies…

— William Cowper

Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot,…

— Roger Deakins

“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain…

— Bronnie Ware

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.…

— Julian Barnes

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to…

— Gerald R. Ford

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is…

— Eckhart Tolle

Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that…

— Judi Dench

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Elspeth reached up a tentative hand to comfort him, palming the cheek that wasn’t covered with woad. He wrapped an arm around…

— Connie Mason

I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for…

— Groucho Marx

Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have…

— Anonymous

A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure…

— Wilhelm Reich

I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to…

— Kirstie Alley

The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or…

— Alex Epstein

Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous…

— Herbert Read

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time…

— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

— Socrates

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

— Marvin J. Ashton

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.”

— Sophocles

“pleasure at word that you were en route from England.”

— Sandee Keegan