Pleasure Quotes - page 2

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out ... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. View quote
A. E. Housman
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. View quote
Jane Austen
What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. View quote
Russell Baker
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. View quote
Monica Bellucci
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. View quote
Walt Disney
There is no small pleasure in pure water. View quote
Ovid
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. (Mahatma Gandhi)
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. View quote
William Hazlitt
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. View quote
Amos Oz
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. View quote
George F. Kennan
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. (Aaron Burr)
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. View quote
E. M. Forster
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. View quote
Joseph Addison
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. View quote
John Dryden
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