Pleasure Quotes

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Faulkne

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

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

Thomas Jefferson

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Paul De Gondi

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Swami Brahnmananda

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

Abraham Lincoln

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

Wystan Hugh Auden

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Michael Faraday

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

Robert Louis Stephenson

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Marcus Valerius Martialis

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Marquis de Sade

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Joseph Addison

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Michael Korda

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Paul Wiene

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Norman R. Augustine

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko Yoshida

Pleasure is a by - Product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

A. Lawrence Lowell

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

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey