Pleasure Quotes

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

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

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

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

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

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

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

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.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

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

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

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

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

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

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.