Pleasure Quotes

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

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.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

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

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

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.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.