Quotes on Pleasure

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Author: Arthur Adamov

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Author: Piers Anthony

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Author: Jane Austen

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Author: Pierre Bonnard

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Author: William Burroughs

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Author: Lord Byron

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Author: Jeanne Calment

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

Author: Max Cannon

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Author: Mason Cooley

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Author: Pierre Corneille

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Author: Don Cornelius

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Author: William Cowper

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

Author: Alex Cox

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Author: John Donne

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Author: Charles Eames

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Author: Albert Einstein

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Author: Michael Faraday

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Author: Jean Fontaine

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Author: Jean Fontaine

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Author: Germaine Greer

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Author: Zane Grey

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Author: Thomas Hardy

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Author: Rex Harrison

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

Author: William Hazlitt

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Author: Horace

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Author: Aldous Huxley

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Author: Aldous Huxley

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Author: Robinson Jeffers

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Author: Stephan Jenkins

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Author: Vernon Lee

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Author: Anita Loos

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

Author: Shane MacGowan

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Author: Groucho Marx

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

Author: Barbara McClintock

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Author: John Mortimer

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Author: Nagarjuna

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Author: Leonard Nimoy

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Author: Jean Paul

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

Author: Dana Plato

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Author: Manuel Puig

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Author: Francis Quarles

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

Author: Nora Roberts

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Author: John Rockefeller

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Author: Percy Shelley

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Author: William Shenstone

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Author: Richard Steele

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Author: Gertrude Stein

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Author: Stendhal

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Author: Cat Stevens

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Author: Tacitus

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Author: Voltaire

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

Author: Lila Wallace

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Author: Christoph Wieland

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Author: Xenophon

Life is a journey, enjoy the detours

Author: Samantha Carter

Eat, drink, and be merry, for life is too short to do otherwise.

Author: Sophia Johnson