Jeremy Collier Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Ambition, Luxury

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108

• The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

  Jeremy Collier

  Office, Support, Rewards

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

• Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

  Jeremy Collier

  May, Rooms, Trouble

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