Quotes About Leisure

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Una grande passion es el privilegio de quienes no tienen nada que hacer.

The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.

He had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

For such a career I lacked both endurance and inclination: the stress of ambition left me cold, while the Muse, the creative spirit, was forever urging on me that haven of leisure to which I'd always leaned. The poets of those days I cultivated and cherished: for me, bards were so many gods.

Wovon man nicht handeln kann, darüber muss man faulenzen. Whereof one cannot act, thereof one must be lazy.

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts

The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

No, I am quite content with you, Bertie. By the way, I do dislike that name Bertie. I think I shall call you Harold. Yes, I am perfectly satisfied with you. You have many faults, of course. I shall be pointing some of them out when I am at leisure.

Nature seems to unbutton its waistcoat and put its feet up.

When I have a leisure moment, you will generally find me curled up with Spinoza's latest.

If there's one thing I like, it's a quiet life. I'm not one of those fellows who get all restless and depressed if things aren't happening to them all the time. You can't make it too placid for me. Give me regular meals, a good show with decent music every now and then, and one or two pals to totter round with, and I ask no more.

Excuse me, I must go and putt

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-who-like-to-be-left-alone- to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts.

In this life, you can choose between two courses. You can either shut yourself up in a country house and stare into tanks, or you can be a dasher with the sex. You can't do both.

There are few things more restful than to watch some one else busy under a warm sun.

Ski-ing, indeed! What on earth does the fellow want to ski for? Isn't there enough sadness in life without going out of your way to fasten long planks to your feet and jump off mountains?