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Quotes About Pleasure

I would be more slender if I didn't eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I'm not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup - I need to chomp.
~ Zoe Ball
Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day.
~ Ronan Keating
Music can be a source of escapism.
~ Danielle de Niese
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
~ Peter York
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Now I am married to a man who is a partner and friend. We come from similar backgrounds and share values and interests. It is a continual source of pleasure to talk to him.
~ Deborah Tannen
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
~ Michael Dirda
The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.
~ Franklin Foer
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
~ Joseph P. Bradley
The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
~ Keith Henson
I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
~ Zach Johnson
Spaghetti is love.
~ Mario Batali
Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand i've begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to balancethe pleasure of lonelinessagainst the painof loving you
~ Nikki Giovanni, Love Poems
I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.
~ K. Webster
We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must.
~ F.M. Burgett
... if sin had a taste she'd found it.
~ Megan Mitcham, Enemy Mine
But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.
~ Faye Hall
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
~ Robertson Davies
I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.
~ Love The Stacks Bookstore
At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!
~ Avijeet Das
We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox