Pleasure Quotes

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Samuel Johnson
Gratitude Obligation Revenge Inferiority Benefits Pain Minds Pleasure Recompense Impatient Return Because Species
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Stendhal
Pleasure Spoiled Often Describing
Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people. Travis Bradberry
Time You People Hurts Somebody First Other Else Peer Pleasure Faux Misfortunes Feel Over Makes Personal Gets Tiring Might Gross Derive Fun Professional
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote
Music Me Writing Words Pleasure About Make Greatest Greatest Pleasure Inner
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. A. E. Housman
Sometimes Will Understanding Pleasure Draw Out Poetry Perfect Almost May Meaning Even Extinguish
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. Abraham Clark
God Will Own Our Pleasure Destroy My Own He Almighty Almighty God Disappointed His Accomplished Fixed Hands Confide Cannot Us Whom Designs Fates Save
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Aldous Huxley
Me Speed Pleasure Seems Genuinely Provides Modern
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Annie Dillard
Love Religion Beauty Pleasure Seeker Soon Sought
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. Auguste Rodin
Work Men Pleasure Only True Almost Artists Who
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. B. C. Forbes
Life Work Dessert Pleasure Meat
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin
Man Pleasure He Himself Selling Really Many Buying Thinks
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. Benjamin Spock
Man Woman Dignity Marriage Joy Maturity Style Harmony Say Pleasure Would Inspiration He Surest Spouse His Provides Creates Measure
I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions. Brian Grazer
People Pleasure Telling Boss Take Like Around Motivated Questions Curiosity Get Manage Any Asking Asking Questions
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Charles Baudelaire
Work Time Down Every Pleasure Weighed Consumes Conception Escaping Forgetting Sensation Us Means Choose Moment Let Us Strengthens Two Nightmare
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Charles Baudelaire
Giving Pleasure Bad Bad Taste Aristocratic Exhilarating Offense Taste
High heels are pleasure with pain. Christian Louboutin
Pain Pleasure High High Heels Heels
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming. David Morrissey
Love Nothing Pleasure Daydreaming Doing Chilling Planning Loafing
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. Elias Canetti
Practice Enjoy Consider Pleasure Out Find Adult Also Very Quickly Child Deceiving Children Deception Themselves Then Figure Necessary
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black
Happiness Life First Lasting Aiming Way Pleasure Paradox Seek Something Purpose Outside Self Miss Condition Very Should Full
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. Jacob Bronowski
Me Pleasure About Taking Knowing Issues Intellectual Being Mean Them Means
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. James Naismith
Man Money Goals Power Way Pleasure Out Seeing Some More Sure Am Than Place Derive Pair Basketball
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen
Good Stupid Gentleman Pleasure Must Person Lady Who Novel
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Jean de la Bruyere
Beautiful Pleasure Criticizing Feel Beautiful Things Very Moved Being Us Things
Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk. John Burnside
Garden Walk Will Few Summer Months Pleasure Spirit More Bleak Clearly Likely However Source Than Any Urban Activities
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne
Pleasure Diversified None
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. John Stuart Mill
Freedom Pain Pleasure Only Freedom From Ends Things Desirable
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