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Pleasure Quotes

"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

Alex Cox, British Director

Pleasure, Projects, Saying

"When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself."

Shane MacGowan, Irish Musician

Pleasure, Song, Writing

"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."

Don Cornelius, American Director

"Fast cars are my only vice."

Michael Bay, American Director

"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."

Anita Loos, American Writer

"There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."

John Mortimer, English Novelist

Pleasure, Worth, Years

"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."

Michael Faraday, English Scientist

Pleasure, Reason

"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Pleasure, Woman

"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."

Nora Roberts, American Author

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."

John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman

"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."

Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

Pleasure, Writing

"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."

Lila Acheson Wallace, American Publisher

"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

Voltaire, French Writer

"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

Charles Eames, American Designer

"How delicious is pleasure after torment!"

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."

Horace, Roman Poet

Pleasure, Water

"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."

Jeanne Calment, French Celebrity

Pleasure, Regret

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

Stendhal, French Writer

"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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