Cases Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

— Quentin Crisp

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

— Cynthia Rylant

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

— Patricia Moyes

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending…

— John Irving

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their…

— Winston Churchill

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Max Eastman

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

— David Lodge

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

— Jonathan Swift

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure…

— Victoria Moran