Alexander Smith Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

• It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

  Alexander Smith

  Gone, Pleasure, Characteristics

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

• Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

  Alexander Smith

  Logic, Pleasure, Footsteps

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

• Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

  Alexander Smith

  Vanity, Giving, Idlers

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.181

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