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Pleasure Quotes - Page 27

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

Henry Miller (2016). “Henry Miller Interview 1”, p.3, Masters Masterworks

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Henry Fielding (1811). “The History of Amelia”, p.191

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

George Farquhar (1760). “The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies, Publish'd in His Life-time. In Two Volumes”

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.140

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

"Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XII, 87, 1321.