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Quotes About Pleasure

Have a break, have a Kit-Kat.
~ Anonymous
Double your pleasure, double your fun with . . . Doublemint, Doublemint, Doublemint gum.
~ Anonymous
Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.
~ Anonymous
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
~ Thomas Hardy
Buying is a profound pleasure.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.
~ Charles Duhigg
I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.
~ Amy Childs
One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally - that's why it's a guilty pleasure.
~ Raza Jaffrey
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
~ Frances Burney
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
~ Carolina Herrera
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.
~ Marjorie Liu
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
~ Eric Stoltz
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
~ George Pierce Baker
Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.
~ Euripides
Necio es el mortal que, creyéndose siempre feliz, se abandona al placer: la fortuna, cual furiosa delirante, salta aquí y allá, y a ninguno concede perpetua dicha
~ Euripides
Est fou, bien sûr, qui se refuse aux délices du vin, quand on peut dresser haut celui que je tiens là, palper un sein, caresser des deux mains une prairie offerte ! L'or danse et l'on oublie ses maux !
~ Euripides
Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.
~ Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
~ Euripides
We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
~ Euripides
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
~ Eve Ensler
Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
~ Eve Merriam
Billionaires Pleasure Luke & Claire Wired Wanton
~ Evelyn Adams
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
~ Evelyn Waugh