Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Sex is an act of pleasure and an expression of love. How better to communicate one’s deepest feelings than without the clumsy use of words? — André Chevalier
Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.
The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you and your visit will be all the more pleasurable and desirable.
Miss Kane, I have been worried. Sorry, I've been in a faery closet and a werewolf dungeon. Business or pleasure? Business.
Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
Like capitalism,” Carl suggested. “‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
I can take care of myself,” I said hotly. “Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself.
