Amazed Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we…

— John Selden

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

— Evelyn Waugh

In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains…

— Richard Arnold Epstein

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is…

— Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

— Roger Caras

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends…

— H. L. Mencken

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

— Sydney Smith

“Do you like dogs?' 'No.' 'I thought the British were great dog-lovers.' 'We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.”

— Graham Greene

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the…

— Jules Verne

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

— Ogden Nash