Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Ah! si l'on o"  tait les chime'  res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.