Quotes of: Pleasure Keyword

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Vernon Lee

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enj...

A Posthumous Confession

Visits always give pleasure -- if not at the arrival, then at the departure.

Portuguese

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have ...

Eric Ripert

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to th...

Geoffrey Wood

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipat...

Geoffrey Wood

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

The Pleasures of Life

I said never mix business with pleasure. They said it was a pleasure doing business with me.

Nikhil Sharda

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Paul Theroux

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

Sue Townsend

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Muhammad Ali

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

John Mackey

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Juan Manuel Fangio

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

Dawn French

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Blaise Pascal

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Debra Messing

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Jane Elliot

People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.

French

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and ...

Jane Eyre

I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure...

A Little Life