Pleasure Quotes - Page 12

• 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 never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Usury

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.144

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Luxury, Silence

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• The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Doors, Favors

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1872, Delphi Classics

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• I love all waste
  And solitary places; where we taste
  The pleasure of believing what we see
  Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Believe, Soul, Wish

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 14

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• Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

  Thomas Beecham

  Giving, Musical, Scratches

  To a cellist; attributed, no source found

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• The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Food, Cooking

  "Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

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• You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Passion, Needs, Wells

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• Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

  William Feather

  Interfere

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• To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

  Mark Twain

  Justice, Ecstasy, Commonplace

  The Innocents Abroad ch. 26 (1869)

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• Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Thinking, Government

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring ...”, p.1

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• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Humorous, People, Profound

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.85, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

  Hafez

  Bitterness

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• Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Long, Woe, Source

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

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• Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Innocence, Enjoyment

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

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• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Men, Welcome

  Leviathan "A Review and Conclusion" (1651)

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• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  J. G. Ballard

  Death, Children, Car

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• Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Light, Dazzle

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.415

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• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, School, Irresponsibility

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Abolition Of Slavery, Needs

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.100, Columbia University Press

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• We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

  Carly Simon

  Trying, Shapes, Deny

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• It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

  Tina Weymouth

  Respect, World, Talent

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• Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Children, Book, Cutting

  A Bad Child's Book of Beasts dedication (1896)

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

  Arthur Helps

  Giving, Please, Know How

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

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