Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

One has to love in his life time to feel the real pain and pleasure

Jitendra Anne

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

Julie Burchill

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

Charles Baudelaire

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

George Plimpton

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

Harley King

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Joseph de Maistre

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

Douglas Coupland

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

Damian Lewis

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!

Dave Legeno

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

Michael O'Brien

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Marquis de Sade

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

Paul Bloom

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

Lysander Spooner

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

Lee Thompson Young

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

Tom Rath

Fredrick Zoller: [to Shosanna] It's been a pleasure chatting with a fellow cinema lover.

Inglourious Basterds

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. E. Housman

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

Charles Duhigg