Arthur Helps Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

  Arthur Helps

  Giving, Pleasure, Please

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

• The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, House, Privilege

• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

  Arthur Helps

  Time, Play, Long

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.239

• Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

  Arthur Helps

  Fall, Men, Glasses

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.25

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