Best Pleasures Lines
877 Pleasures quotes by 581 unique authors
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I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is…
— Victoria Tennant
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Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of…
— Armond White
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
— Ryan Holiday
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Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out…
— Harold Bloom
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance…
— Barry Lopez
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
— Samuel Johnson
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation…
— Unknown Author
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
— Walter Scott
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
— Isaac Watts
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army…
— Edward Abbey
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;…
— Dorothy Parker
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Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and…
— Allan Bloom
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge…
— Bernard Malamud
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other…
— Roland Barthes
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but…
— Democritus
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Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it…
— Robert E. Lee
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
— Aristippus
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How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and…
— Joseph Joubert
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The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when…
— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be…
— Coventry Patmore
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a…
— William Melmoth
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I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
— Colleen McCullough
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To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite…
— Elizabeth David
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