Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Little Men

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

Mockingjay

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

The Story of a New Name

I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley

Susanna

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.

The Search for WondLa

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Poems and Essays

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Pensées philosophiques

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice

What's the pleasure?' I asked. 'Planning, I guess. I don't know. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

Paper Towns

She'd had sex with a demon. Tayla swallowed bile and tried to keep her stomach from heaving. She needed to shower. And douche.

Pleasure Unbound

Better would be good. Because if she felt a little less like she’d been run over by a truck, she could jump on Dr. Hottie.

Pleasure Unbound

he stretched out beside her, uncomfortably close, as if they were lovers. Real lovers and not the most mismatched pair of fuck buddies ever.

Pleasure Unbound

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

The Promise - Yposchesi

Truly I am God's Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms...I am here for His Glory and Pleasure.

Risk It, Be Different

I’ll steal the letter X, and replace it with treasure. So sex would then be spelled setreasure, but it’d still be just as pleasurable.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If it’s dangerous, then you go first. If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.

This Book Has No Title

Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and your character. This is the same for everyone.

Unknown

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

The Uncommon Reader

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Vile Bodies