Quotes About Pleasure

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

I always listen to you, Joy. It's become one of the greatest pleasures of my life." -Caleb McClintock

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Claro que diré que escribir es una necesidad fatal: si es fatal, tantas veces, el placer del alcohol o de cualquier alcaloide, siendo elementos venidos del exterior, ¿Cómo no va a ser fatal el placer de la vanidad cuya materia prima la extraemos de nuestras entrañas?

Don't be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.

Patachula habla de la información como de una droga adictiva. Cree que en el fondo no nos interesa la noticia, sino la sensación placentera que nos produce. ¡Qué alivio saber que una desgracia le ha ocurrido al prójimo y no a nosotros!

Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

La lujuria está bien: el sexo es bueno, despeja la cabeza y alegra el corazón.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

Get me outta these ropes and into a good belt of Scotch.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

How lucky we are that we can reach our genitals instead of that spot on our back that itches.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

I knew Frédérique wouldn't write. But I persevered in the pleasure of taking my sadness to the limit, the way one does with some practical joke. The pleasure of disappointment. It wasn't new to me. I had been relishing it ever since I was eight years old, a boarder in my first, religious, school. And perhaps they were the best years, I thought. Those years of discipline. There was a kind of elation, faint but constant throughout all those days of discipline, the sweet days of discipline.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.

The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.

Esta funesta inclinación nace de la constitución misma del hombre, de ese sentimiento primitivo, universal, invencible, que lo empuja hacia el bienestar y lo hace huir de la incomodidad, el esfuerzo y el dolor.

It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences.