Pleasure Quote by Vernon Lee Download Open image “The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.” — Vernon Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pleasure Pleasure of reading Reading
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“If there are such things as ghosts," he replied, "I don't think they should be taken lightly. God would not permit them to be,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling;… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind.… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
