Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Kinky Friedman

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

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
James Nasmyth

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy

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.
John Henry Newman

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

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
John Prescott

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
John Prescott

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Theodor Adorno

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

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