Pleasure Quotes - page 3

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? View quote
John Belushi
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. View quote
Alexander Smith
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. View quote
Jane Austen
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. View quote
William Congreve
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. (Yoshida Kenkō)
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. View quote
John Steinbeck
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. View quote
Stendhal
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. View quote
Edward Young
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness who read for pastime but not to kill time who love books, but do not live by books. (Robertson Davies)
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Happiness is pleasure without regret. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. View quote
Aldous Huxley