Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
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.
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.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.