Pleasure Quotes

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

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

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

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.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

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

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!

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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.

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.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

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.