Pleasure Quotes

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

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.