The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Harrison Ford

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt

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

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
Giotto di Bondone

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Auguste Rodin

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin

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.
Marilyn Hacker

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
Alan Rickman

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
Felix Mendelssohn

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon

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

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
Tina Weymouth

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
Manfred von Richthofen

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
Federico Fellini

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

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.
Roger Bannister

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Jean Racine