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Pleasure Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
- Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
- Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
- It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
- It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to…
- I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things…
- We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
- Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
- The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
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