Famous Pleasure Quotes
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
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.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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.