Pleasure Quotes

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

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

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

George Eliot

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Paul Wiene

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Charles Buxton

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tyron Edwards

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Swami Brahnmananda

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Robert Darwin

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Charles Fox

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Alfred Mercie

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Edward Clarke

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

Clarence Darrow, Medley

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

Robert Louis Stephenson