Quotes About Pleasure

A masmorra escura. É o teu futuro. A preguiça, o prazer, que precipícios! Não fazer nada, é um lúgubre partido a tomar, sabes? Viver ocioso da substância social! Ser inútil, ou seja, nocivo! Isso conduz directamente ao fundo da miséria.

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.

Once, however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des Gres.—'I owe five sous,' he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day he had no dinner.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

Elsa thought of all the laundry she'd done in her life, the joy she'd always taken in hanging sheets to dry, but never until now had she fully, deeply appreciated the sheer physical pleasure of clean sheets on naked skin. The fresh smell of lavender soap in her hair.

Jie kariauja. Laikas buvo prabanga, kuria dabar jau niekas negal?jo girtis. Rytojus atrod? toks pat laikinas, kaip bu?inys tamsoje.

Indeed. When it comes to books, the saucier, the better, don't you think?

all i want...is mac and cheese

I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I loved seeing him like this, completely lost in the pleasure I was giving him.

I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When sorrow walked with me.

Stefan's love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun. She trembled with pleasure, with love, and with longing.

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "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.

For a moment Eustace contemplated an existence spent in pleasing himself. How would he set about it? He had been told by precept, and had learned from experience, that the things he did to please himself usually ended in making other people grieved and angry, and were therefore wrong. Was he to spend his life in continuous wrong-doing, and in making other people cross? There would be no pleasure in that. Indeed what pleasure was there, except in living up to people's good opinion of him?

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.

The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

Každý sen je masochistní.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)