Quotes About Pleasure

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.