Quotes of: Guilty-pleasure Keyword

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

I Capture the Castle

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.

Infinite Jest

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.

Indiscretion

For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.

Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

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.

The Sword of Demelza

Miss Kane, I have been worried. Sorry, I've been in a faery closet and a werewolf dungeon. Business or pleasure? Business.

Shadows & Dreams

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

The Sign of Four

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

The Night Bookmobile

Like capitalism,” Carl suggested. “‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.

Necessary Errors

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

The Nicomachean Ethics

I can take care of myself,” I said hotly. “Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself.

Locked and Loaded

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