Pleasure Quotes

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.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.