Authors:

Pleasure Quotes - Page 33

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.344, Wordsworth Editions

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

"Julia Child Boiling, Answers Her Critics" by Carol Lawson, www.nytimes.com. 1990.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Sir John Lubbock (1909). “On Peace and Happiness”, London : Macmillan

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

"The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.