Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

You on your way out?" Jace nodded. "Dont want to overstay our welcome." "What welcome?" Magnus asked. "I'd say is was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn't. Not that you aren't all fairly charming, and as for you-" He dropped a glittery wink at Alec, who looked astounded. "Call me?" -Magnus & Jace, pg.243-

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

A cup of joy is better than an ocean of pleasure.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.

Acting silly is one of the primal pleasures.