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Pleasure Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
- The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
- Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
- I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
- Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
- Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
- Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator
- I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
- The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
- I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever…
- What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
- If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid…
- What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
- To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not…
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more…
- A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
- Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
- Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
- Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
- A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?…
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- 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