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Pleasure Quotes by Jane Austen
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
- Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
- You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
- I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
- And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a…
- Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
- Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did…
- She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and…
- The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does…
- Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
- As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it…
- Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
- Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I…
- I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
- ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
- She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid.
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