Sensual Quote by Steven Brust

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as…

— Saul Bellow

We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions…

— Nhat Hanh

The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a…

— Ian Mcewan

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it…

— Joseph Addison

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

— Jane Porter

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

— Samuel Johnson

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a…

— Gustave Flaubert

I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not…

— Christiane Northrup

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”

— Georges Rodenbach

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us…

— Pauline Kael

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke