Pleasure Quotes - Page 41

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

To what do I owe the pleasure?

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.