Quotes About Pleasure

Though no one can, I think, pretend that science does not concern itself, and properly concern itself, with facts which are not to all appearance illustrations of law, it is undoubtedly true that for those who desire to extract the greatest pleasure from science, a knowledge, however elementary, of the leading principles of investigation and the larger laws of nature, is the acquisition most to be desired.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane

If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.

There is often more pleasure in suffering than in happiness; look at the martyrs!

Independently of any gesture of repulsion, there exists in the soul of all women a sentiment which tends, sooner or later, to proscribe all pleasure devoid of passionate feeling.

The interest of a husband as much as his honor forbids him to indulge a pleasure which he has not had the skill to make his wife desire.

If a man cannot distinguish the difference between the pleasures of two consecutive nights, he has married too early.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

In the life of man there are no two moments of pleasure exactly alike, any more than there are two leaves of identical shape upon the same tree.

The music of the Opera enchants me; and whilst my soul is plunged in divine pleasure, I am the centre of admiration and the focus of all the opera-glasses. But a single glance will make the boldest youth drop his eyes.

The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.

When two human beings are united by pleasure, all social conventionalities are put aside. This situation conceals a reef on which many vessels are wrecked. A husband is lost, if he once forgets there is a modesty which is quite independent of coverings. Conjugal love ought never either to put on or to take away the bandage of its eyes, excepting at the due season.

Marriage is a matter concerning the whole of life, whilst love aims only at pleasure. On the other hand, marriage will remain when pleasures have vanished, and it is the source of interests far more precious than those of the man and woman entering on the alliance.

Why is it that everything I eat when I'm with you is so delicious?' I laughed. 'Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

Davanti alla natura sentivo quello che provavo dopo avere fatto del buon sesso. Trascinata dalla sua energia incommensurabile, intravedevo qua e là delle forme sensuali, quasi celate: i boccioli cilindrici dei fiori di ciliegio, le linee rette delle foglie di giunco, le spirali dei mulinelli che si formavano nell'acqua attorno ai sassi. La sola vista di ciò bastava a farti provare un piacere fisico.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

he couldn't deny the unexpected rush of pleasure at the pairing of his great-nephew with Lizbet Blythe's granddaughter. "One for you, Sam!" Daisy Vashon exclaimed from behind his right shoulder. The five of them—Sam, Daisy, JW Sterling, Lizbet and Hannah Sprite—were clustered around the computer screen in his garage at the Sunny Autumn Seniors Community in Port Aidin, Florida. "Logan Edwards and Jade Korrigan," Hannah read aloud from behind

The magic of scavenging is in the serendipity of the find; to actually hunt for objects - though sometimes necessary - diminishes the pleasure of finding them.

If it is true that men only want one thing, Jane asked herself, is it perhaps just to be left to themselves with their soap animals or some other harmless little trifle?

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.

Yes, life has to go on, and I suppose a cup of tea does make it seem to be doing that more than anything.

But it's a good feeling and one does so like to have that.

Too late for coffee, too early for drink -though when was it ever too early for a glass of Tio Pepe, slightly chilled?