Pleasure Quotes

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

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

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

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

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.