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Pleasure Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
- A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
- The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than…
- When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not…
- Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with…
- It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.…
- I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either…
- Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to…
- But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more…
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when…
- Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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