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Quotes About Pleasure

he had to do was risk his life to keep her safe from the most vicious assassin order in Europe? And he got to kiss her, at his pleasure? He definitely had struck the better bargain.
~ Kresley Cole
He was railing my mind blank, long-dicking me into oblivion.
~ Kresley Cole
in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.
~ Kyle Mills
You are the only woman I know who is as sexy when she unapologetically takes what she wants as she is when she pleads for release.
~ Kyra Davis
Sleep is not, with me, a mere switching off: it is a very positive pleasure to be supped and savoured with expertise. It was a good night; sleep pampered me like a familiar, salty mistress who yet always has a new delight with which to surprise her jaded lover.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
I ate a great quantity of turbot, some boiled mutton and a few nicely-dressed woodcocks, each set upon a toast which had been spread with the bird's "trails", peppered. "Trails" means guts. I also drank some wine.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
~ L. Frank Baum
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
~ L. Frank Baum
Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men.
~ L. Frank Baum
Having this thought in mind, the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum
~ L. Frank Baum
I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
~ L. M. Montgomery
I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
~ John Piper
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.
~ Lenny Bruce
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
~ Rick Warren
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
~ Marquis de Sade
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
~ William James
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
~ Bertrand Russell
Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.
~ Dylan Moran
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
~ Lin Yutang
I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'
~ Adam Ferrara