Pleasure Quote by Chloe Benjamin

“A life of ease and plenty dangled over his head like a great bulging pinata, which he might smash open if only he had…

— J.K. Rowling

“[My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping.”

— Prue Leith

“Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure and bathing in the filth and the slime.…

— Stephen King Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.”

— Peter Rollins

“It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to…

— Joe Abercrombie

“I used to think aged Scotch, expensive pool tables, and one-night stands were the height of pleasure. Then, my greatest guilty pleasure ever...turned into…

— Lauren Blakely

“Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed them. But…

— Isaac Asimov

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.”

— Walker Percy

“But he had underestimated the strangeness of talking about the future of his life with someone for whom the future still seemed unbounded: a…

— Zadie Smith