Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

Zac Efron

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

The Complete Plays and Poems

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Emma

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Evelina

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

A Friend of the Earth

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.

Forbidden Pleasure

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

Guilty Pleasures

I've read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure— pain.

How to Build a Girl

A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.

Bound to Accept

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.

Anne Spencer

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

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Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

The Interpretation of Murder

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Indiscretion

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Killosophy

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

The Sense of an Ending