Pleasure Quotes - page 4

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. (Aldous Huxley)
I feel sorry for silent films. What a pleasure to watch a woman opening a mouth, while no voice is heard. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. View quote
Albert Einstein
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. View quote
Josh Billings
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure. View quote
Virgil
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. View quote
Socrates
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes. (Graham Norton)
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
I took pleasure when I could... I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. View quote
Jeanne Calment
Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. View quote
Francis Picabia
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. (Edward Gibbon)
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...) View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead of judgment, the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others. View quote
Samuel Johnson
đŸ“– Pleasure Proverbs