Pleasure Quotes

• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Giving, Tire

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• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Morning, Creativity

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• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Horse, Entrepreneur

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Freedom, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.29, New World Library

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• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Joy

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• Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

  William Blake

  Love, Fun, Too Much

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick The Great

  Sad, Truth, Diversity

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

  Love, Sorrow, Lasts

  'Celestine.'

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• Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Doe, Please

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.351

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• When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

  Epictetus

  Ideas, Imagination, Duration

  "Epictetus his morals: with Simplicius his comment".

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• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.37

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• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Action, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tests, Approval, Pleasures Of Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

  Juvenal

  Produce, Indulgence, Greater

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Satires, XI, line 208, 1922.

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• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Reality, Investing

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

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  That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Intense

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.78, Library of America

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• Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

  William S. Burroughs

  Relief

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Mean, Goal

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

  Thomas Fuller

  Love, Beloved, Beloved Person

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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