Quotes of: Pleasures Keyword

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Russell Baker

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

Life

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Life

Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically. (Waterstones Trafalgar Square)

Love

The dreams of a pure life, The dreams of a loving wife, Find pleasure in a Godly life.

Life

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

William Hazlitt

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Xenophon

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Zane Grey

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Edward Weston

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Hugo Weaving

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Jimmy Buffett

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

Dear and Glorious Physician

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

The Debt to Pleasure

... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

Eat, Pray, Love

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Emma

I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.

Emma

I can offer you pleasure like you've never known before.

Eraser

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Tom Hodgkinson