Pleasure Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. View quote
Aristotle
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. View quote
Nagarjuna
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. View quote
Epicurus
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. View quote
Aphra Behn
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. View quote
William Hazlitt
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. View quote
George Orwell
Variety is the soul of pleasure. View quote
Aphra Behn
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. View quote
Charles Lamb
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. (Gertrude Stein)
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. View quote
Margaret Fuller
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. View quote
Helen Rowland
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. View quote
Mary Shelley
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. View quote
Michael Faraday
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. View quote
William Cowper
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out ... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. View quote
A. E. Housman