Pleasure Quotes - Page 42
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
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
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
Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.222, Faber & Faber
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