Quotes of: Guilty-pleasure Keyword

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

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

I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.

Ibn Arabi

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

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

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

David Foster Wallace

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

Elliott Erwitt

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Erica Jong

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

Barry Eisler