Quotes of: Guilty-pleasure Keyword

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

The Green Man

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?

The Brothers Karamazov

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Bel-Ami

Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives...

Because You Deserve Love

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Bioenergetics

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Bought: For His Convenience or Pleasure?

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Bonjour tristesse

From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which are among the large variety of substances which form within plants; these were used partly for therapeu...

Otto Wallach

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Camille Paglia

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.

Charles Saatchi

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.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

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.

About Alice

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.

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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

Accuse

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

Antología poética

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

The Alexandria Quartet