Famous Pleasure Quotes



A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Miguel de Unamuno

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain

Samuel Johnson

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

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

August Strindberg

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas Alva Edison

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Theodore Roosevelt

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Khalil Gibran

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Jane Austen

Pets remind us to appreciate the beauty of nature and the simple pleasures of life.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

Dogs remind us to be present, to savor the small moments, and to find joy in the simplest of pleasures.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Stendhal

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas De Quincey

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

Victor Hugo

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