Pleasure Quotes - Page 37

• I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

  Cillian Murphy

  Years, Luck, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.

  Wes Anderson

  Moving, People, Looks

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2007.

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• I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Book, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.297, Stanford University Press

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• We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Greatness, Willpower

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Iron, Alliances

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

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• The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reading, Hands, People

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• The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Self, Mind

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Men, Equality

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Imagination, Whim

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

  Marquis de Sade

  Truth, Honesty, Light

  Marquis de Sade (2013). “120 Days of Sodom”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wealth, Acquire

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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• ... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.

  Frances Wright

  Would Be, Impossible, Surprise

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.312

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• You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

  Moliere

  Family, Marriage, Thinking

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• New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

  Moliere

  Love, Desire, Seduction

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• I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Men, Wife

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Shadow, World

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Volunteer, Captains, Autobiography

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

  Joseph Addison

  Work, Luxury, Way

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.65

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• I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.57, Modern Library

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• I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

  Thomas Jefferson

  Paris, Independence, Savages

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Race, Blood

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• We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
  But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

  Ovid

  Joy, Forbidden

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• The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

  William McFee

  Art, Done, Incidents

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

  James Joyce

  Love, Life, Fleeting

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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