Pleasure Quotes

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

Down, Ourselves, Later

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Wrong, Another

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

Character, Live, Wife

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Stendhal

Often, Spoiled, Describing

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings

Life, Money, Moral

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield

Sex, Ridiculous, Position

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Charles Baudelaire

Terror, Hysteria, Cultivated

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

Death, Sadness, Enough

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

Good, God, Truth

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

Coming, Dividends, Gives

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

Lost, Moment, Amusement

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

Work, Strength, Reward

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Stendhal

Made, Cannot, Story

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

Person, Regret, Quit

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

Break, Promises, Breaking

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
William Shatner

Time, Long, Source

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert

Great, Give, Write

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

Love, Secret, Ceases

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dreams, Free, Nobody

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Mason Cooley

Give, Loves, Vice

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill

Freedom, Pain, Ends

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Art, Important, Loves

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles

Words, Present, Bring

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Giacomo Casanova

Love, Real, After

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick

School, Book, Learned

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs

Perhaps, Relief

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Simone Weil

Dreams, Real, Hard

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
Daisaku Ikeda

Life, Happiness, Focus

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

Beautiful, Moved, Robs

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