Bent Quote by Mark Gatiss

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

— William S. Burroughs

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham

The excess of pleasure is pain

— Almeida Garrett

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for…

— Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure should be pursued just for supporting the body and not for gratifying it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

— Philip Yancey