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Pleasure Quotes

"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Pleasure, Surprises

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

Zane Grey, American Author

Pleasure, Reading

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"To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Pleasure, Amusement, Man

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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."

William Shenstone, English Poet

Pleasure, Unhappiness

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"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Pleasure, Regret

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"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Pleasure, Property

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."

Jean Paul, German Author

Pleasure, Variety

"I find pleasure in things that are simple."

Stephan Jenkins, American Musician

"I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure."

Max Cannon, American Artist

Pleasure, Smoking, Want

"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Pleasure, Buying

"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."

Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Pleasure, Disgust

"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

Tacitus, Roman Historian

"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."

Vernon Lee, British Author

Pleasure, Reading

"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Pleasure, Profit

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still."

Nagarjuna, Indian Philosopher

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

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Pleasure, Reading

"Ease up, the play is over."

Horace Greeley, American Editor

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."

William Cowper, English Poet

Pleasure, Remorse

"I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

Pleasure, Reading, Writing

"Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England."

Zola Budd, South African Athlete

Pleasure, England, Tea

"Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure."

Rex Harrison, British Actor

Pleasure, Tomorrow

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Pleasure, Temptation

"Pleasure is none, if not diversified."

John Donne, British Poet

"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice."

Robinson Jeffers, American Poet

"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."

Richard Steele, British Dramatist

Pleasure, Praise

"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."

Piers Anthony, English Writer

"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."

Dana Plato, American Actress

"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."

Marilyn Hacker, American Poet

Pleasure, Tension, Writing

"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."

Arthur Adamov, Russian Playwright

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

Pleasure, Moderation

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

Pleasure, Spontaneity

"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

Pierre Bonnard, French Artist

"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."

Barbara McClintock, American Scientist

Pleasure, Problems, Reward, Years

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Pleasure, Reading

"Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."

Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet

"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Pleasure, Sorrow

"The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

Pleasure, Satisfaction

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

Lord Byron, British Poet

"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author

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