Pleasure Quotes
4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors
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In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists.…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
— Giotto di Bondone
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Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
— Anthony Bourdain
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount…
— Jo Brand
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
— Alvin Ailey
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
— Emily Bronte
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I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
— Joyce Brothers
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Play is the exultation of the possible.
— Martin Buber
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If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
— Jimmy Buffett
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
— Warren Buffett
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through…
— Julie Burchill
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes…
— Martin Van Buren
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
— William S. Burroughs
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,…
— Samuel Butler
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and…
— Lord Byron
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
— Lord Byron
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
— Lord Byron
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