William Hazlitt Quotes about Pleasure

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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt

Pain, Power, Pleasure

William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.139

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

William Hazlitt

Art, Expression, Pleasure

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”