Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires...never make her hold back.” - Felicity (The Pleasure Room)
The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Pleasures steal away the mind.
Eat with pleasure; drink with measure.
Pleasures are transient -- honors immortal.
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.
My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's...
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzl...
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that...
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
