Ability Quote by Denise Clark

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

— C. S. Lewis

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

— Kevin Young

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we…

— Roland Barthes

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner