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Pleasure Quotes by George Orwell
- I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at…
- The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
- The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it…
- Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…
- It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going…
- So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and…
- There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston—…
- There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a…
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac