Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

Frances Mayes

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

George Pierce Baker

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar

George Gordon Byron

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Giacomo Casanova

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Charles Dickens

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.

Cristina Moracho

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

Charles R. Swindoll

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!

Ira N. Barin

This is what he disliked about political people – injustice and calamity animated them, it was their milk, their lifeblood, it pleasured them.

Ian Mcewan

May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.

Isaac of Nineveh

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

John Adams

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean de la Bruyere

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.

Jim Bishop

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

Jennifer Birkett

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

John Barrowman

If iT was Possible To Go The Way our Mind think and our Eyes Sometimes See, Life Will give more Pleasure to Us.

jan jansen easy branches

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

David Sedaris

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

David Foster Wallace