Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

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

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.