Pleasure Quotes

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.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.