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Pleasure Quotes - Page 42

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.176

Business before pleasure.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.200

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.55, e-artnow

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving 'a glorious batch of 'Examiners", in 'The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt' (1862) vol. 2, p. 122

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.222, Faber & Faber

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

"Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.414, Dell

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.460