Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion. — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
“Passion in man is generally co-existent with a hankering after the pleasures of the palate. And” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
“Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the relentlessness of finding the limitations of what we are capable of and pushing past them. We do this with our pleasures,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I adore simple pleasures,” said Lord Henry. “They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don’t like scenes, except on… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Life holds many pleasures for me and challenge is my life. Beyond that..nothing else matters..NOTHING” — Zobéir Firouzi Copy Share Image
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
“Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures… — Danny Tyran Copy Share Image
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful because it is a controlled yet chaotic dance of ups and downs where we are blessed with the ability… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Heaven is here to stay and sex is here to stay! We'll be able to enjoy many of these so-called fleshly pleasures… — David Berg Copy Share Image
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch,… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibilities, but all constantly being destroyed, all coming to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A fantasy is something produced in the imagination, allowing you to indulge in a thought life that is very different from what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
