Quotes of: Guilty-pleasure Keyword

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Nana

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

Les caractères

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

Love and Responsibility

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Swann's Way

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Swann's Way

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote: Conversations

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

Out of the Silent Planet

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

The Pleasures of Life

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The Pleasures of Life

Colin: "1 dinna understand why we canna just go to bed and have sex." He looked truly puzzled.

The Pleasure Master

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Men need to realize that women take longer to get aroused and satisfied - sometimes 6 -8 times longer. Make the journey pleasurable.

A Woman's Pleasure

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Reclaiming Epicurus

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Stephen Greenblatt