Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the… — Joan D. Chittister
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What… — Anton Chekhov
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. — Rex Harrison
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives. — Agnes Repplier
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die. — Pierre Beaumarchais
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate… — Tony Robbins
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure… — Whittaker Chambers
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no… — Thomas Jefferson
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and… — Samuel Johnson
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,… — Samuel Johnson
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. — William Wordsworth
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud… — Samuel Johnson
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they… — Jean de la Bruyere
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in… — Ravi Zacharias
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it… — Susan Sontag

Who Wrote These Pleasure Quotes

2,495 authors contributed a total of 4,661 Pleasure Quotes, led by these top contributors: