Pleasure Quotes

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Earl of Chesterfield

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.

Kenko Yoshida

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Joseph Addison

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

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

Ovid

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Author Unknown

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Marquis de Sade

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

C. C. Colton

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish Prove

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three - Fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little - By - Little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Wallace Stevens

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Faulkne

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - - For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

S? ren Kierkegaard

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Russell Bake

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Lord Chesterfield

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard