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

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick

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.
Joseph Addison

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison

Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana