Considerable Quote by Samuel Johnson

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

— Samuel Johnson

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

— Jane Austen

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

— Sophocles

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the…

— Samuel Johnson

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

— Alexander Pope

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the…

— Samuel Johnson

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C S Lewis

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

— Richard Whately

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

— Epictetus

Hope is merely another face of desire.

— Christopher Moore