Pleasure Quote by Samuel Johnson

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

— Fernando Pessoa

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what…

— Fernando Pessoa

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

— Samuel Johnson

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

— C. S. Lewis

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so

— Billy Collins