Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Charles Fox

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

Marquis de Sade

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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 everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Robert Darwin

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Henry David Thoreau

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Prove

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Prove

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Oscar Wilde

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mary Wilson Little

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Elias Canetti

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Shakti Gawain

Our pleasures were simple - They included survival.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Jonathan Eibeschutz

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

Clarence Darrow, Medley

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet