Pleasure Quotes

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

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

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

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

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

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

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

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

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.