Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

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

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

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

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

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

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.

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

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 prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

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.

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

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.