Pleasure Quotes

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles

Music, Mean, Him

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

Health, Second, Madness

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley

Business, Whilst

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
Polykarp Kusch

Knowledge, Science, Control

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
Whittaker Chambers

Feeling, Night, Die

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Alex Trebek

Great, Winning, Give

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Ernst Mach

Pain, Different, Sensations

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
Timothy Olyphant

Love, Work, Time

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
Janine Turner

Acting, Three, Films

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams

Home, Last, Knowing

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
Shawn Colvin

Life, Long, Hard

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.
Michael K. Powell

Emotional, Once, Memory

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
John Woolman

Greatest, Serious, Knew

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
John Woolman

Religion, Family, Men

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

Regret, Lucky, Took

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
Ezra Stiles

Find, Liberty, Public

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy de Gourmont

Nothing, Reason, Ideas

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Reading, Nor, Cheap

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin

After, Matter, Painting

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
David Hyde Pierce

Time, Dad, Game

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

Time, Become, Gave

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Joseph Wambaugh

Enjoy, Again, Research

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Minna Antrim

Fool, Moral, Complains

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Neville Marriner

Music, Great, American

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
Robert B. Laughlin

Mother, Play, Hand

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
Alvin Lee

Work, Famous, Nice

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

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

Create, Curious, Resolving

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
Felicity Huffman

Done, Put, Tell

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
Kate DiCamillo

Best, Children, Parents

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