Pleasure Quotes

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

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

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

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

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.