Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

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

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.