Giacomo Casanova Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Past, Laughing, Remembrance

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

• The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Pleasure, Hardest, Sweetest

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

• Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sex, Opposites, Feelings

• Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Real, Lying, Love Is

• Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Exercise, Laughing, Might

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

• Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sweet, Pain, Desire

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.766, Simon and Schuster

• economy spoils pleasure

  Giacomo Casanova

  Pleasure, Economy, Spoil

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.173, JHU Press

• The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sorrow, Philosopher, Pleasure

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

• The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Four, Lovers, Aries

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