It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain
But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.
Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.
Spoken often enough, words become [became] nonsense.
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
