Pleasure Quotes

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.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.