Pleasure Quotes - Page 5

• Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Health, Men, Fruition

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.96, London : H. Colburn

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• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  B. C. Forbes

  Positive, Dessert First, Meat

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• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

  Maxim Gorky

  Life, Success, Work

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  Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Speed, Modern, Seems

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Achievement

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.108

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• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

  Martin Luther

  God, Pride, World

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• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Deceit, Literature

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• Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

  Alan Rickman

  Travel, Journey, Giving

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• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Next, Acquisition

  'Sceptical Essays' (1928) 'Recrudescence of Puritanism'

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• A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Looks

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• A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Baby, Peace, Spring

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.272

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• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  Dada Vaswani

  Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

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• All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Sleep, Together

  Vile Bodies (1930) ch. 6

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• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Simplicity, Special

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• Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Passion, Violence, Hooked

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• As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

  Annie Dillard

  Love, Beauty, Religion

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• The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Lying, Moderation, Rings

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• The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Book, Inspiration, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

  Amos Oz

  Reading, Imagine, Take Your Time

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• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  Bette Davis

  Love, Missing You, Breakup

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• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Foolish

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Success, Sex

  Emma ch. 9 (1816)

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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