Cringe Quote by Vivienne Westwood

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

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

— Billy Collins

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

— Billy Collins

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for…

— Charles Spurgeon

There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.

— Christopher Kimball

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

— Bruce McCulloch

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

— Marquis de Sade

“When I wrote erotica I had a fascination with the word abdomen. I also, in my smutty days liked the word 'turgid.' it sounded…

— Benjamin R. Smith

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

— Audre Lorde

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Ovid