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Pleasure Quotes - Page 15

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.888, Delphi Classics

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “The Vicar of Wakefield ... Nach Walter Scott's verbessertem Texte durchgängig accentuirt. Nebst ... Noten und einem vollständigen Wörterbuche ... Bearbeitet von Christian Heinrich Plessner ... Fünfte Auflage”, p.201

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.139, Sourcebooks, Inc.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.155

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

"The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 144, 2003.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

"The Art of Poetry". Poem by Horace, Line 343, c. 18 BC.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.147, Open Road Media