Pleasure Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image “Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pleasure Spoilt
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? — John Sullivan Dwight Copy Share Image
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Dont bury the past if you have intentions of visiting the grave on its anniversary. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
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