Pleasure Quotes · Page 62

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

— Marquis de Sade

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

— Sophie Dahl

“I can be a pain, but most of all, I can be a pleasure.”

— Grace Jones

“Mr. Nobley: I assure you, I am taking an inordinate amount of pleasure from this ball, but none of it has to…

— Shannon Hale

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take…

— Margaret Mitchell

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue…

— Charles Caleb Colton

This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could…

— Paolo Uccello

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

— Jean Racine

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

— Amin Maalouf

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam…

— Juvenal

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and…

— Daniel Kahneman

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this…

— Henry Selick

I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen…

— Clara Barton

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body…

— Swami Vivekananda

I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning…

— Sigmund Freud

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job -…

— Bryan Adams

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're…

— Ayn Rand

People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only…

— Khurram Murad

Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands -…

— Peggy Orenstein

In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their…

— John Worlidge

There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty…

— Andrew Solomon

If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease,…

— Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved…

— Silvano Arieti

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from…

— Douglas William Jerrold

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than…

— Samuel Johnson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty…

— Terry Gross

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

— Joseph Joubert

Ladies: The sexiest thing you can do for your man is make him bacon naked.

— Ephrem Hardin

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

— Minette Walters

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

— Michael R. Burch

The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.

— Jacques Necker

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

— Anonymous

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

— Joseph Epstein

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

— Queen Victoria

I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I…

— Linda Grant

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

— Haruki Murakami