Delicious Quote by Pierre Corneille

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

— Emile M. Cioran

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

— Leigh Hunt

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

— Lara Pulver

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Jeremy Bentham

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 is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always…

— Epicurus

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

— Anonymous

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

— George Herbert