Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to… — Charles Baudelaire
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also… — Jean Baudrillard
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are… — Jean Baudrillard
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell… — Simone de Beauvoir
Buying is a profound pleasure. — Simone de Beauvoir
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and… — Joseph Addison
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! — Joseph Addison
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. — Mortimer Adler
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. — Joseph Addison
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. — Joseph Addison
Variety is the soul of pleasure. — Aphra Behn
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. — Hilaire Belloc
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. — Isabelle Adjani
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is… — Mortimer Adler
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to… — Mortimer Adler
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than… — Mortimer Adler
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is… — Annie Besant
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's… — Emily Blunt
I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the… — Andrea Bocelli

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