Quotes of: Pleasurable Keyword

Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?

Ajax

I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…

The Apartment of Sex

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

The Immoralist

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Jesus-Shock

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Renegade's Magic

He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.

South of Broad

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

The Strange Library

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

Moral Essays

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Moonraker

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Mad in Pursuit

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Mastery

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

El asunto era bien simple: tenía miedo de sí mismo y de lo que estaba dispuesto a hacer para mantenerla a salvo.

Night Pleasures

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

North and South

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Life's Little Instruction Book

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.

A Little Life

Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

The Last Summer

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

The Scarlet Letter

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

The Shadow of the Wind