Country Quote by John Donne

You don't think I enjoyed what we did this evening, do you? What I did tonight was for King and country! You don't think…

— James Bond

All that we might have been, all that we werefire, tears, wit, taste, martyred ambition stirs like the memory of refused adultery the drained…

— Adrienne Rich

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise…

— John Lahr

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of…

— George Orwell

I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

— Galt Niederhoffer

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

— Margaret Cavendish

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by…

— Joseph Addison

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too…

— Charles Caleb Colton