Describing Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Describing Pleasure Spoiled
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
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