Pleasure Quotes

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

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

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

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

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

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.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

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.