Quotes of: Pleasurable Keyword

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Life

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Willem Dafoe

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

Yanni

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Chris Gabrieli

It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.

Chris Stokes

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Colm Toibin

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

The Complete Plays and Poems

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Emma

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Evelina

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

A Friend of the Earth

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.

Forbidden Pleasure

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

Guilty Pleasures

I've read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure— pain.

How to Build a Girl

A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.

Bound to Accept

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Spencer

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

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Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

The Interpretation of Murder

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Indiscretion