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Pleasure Quotes by William Shakespeare
- These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
- No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
- Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you…
- Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
- Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done…
- A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.…
- The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
- Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;…
- The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can…
- Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
- And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate…
- All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.
- Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took…
- While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.
- Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
- Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.
- For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
- Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him…
- How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,…
- No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken
- The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distempered blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong;…
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