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Quotes About Pleasure

These are the kind of little things which please her ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay.
~ Jane Austen
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure.
~ Jane Austen
The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and re-possessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be set out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes,* as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
~ Jane Austen
It was some months before Sir Thomas's consent could be received; but in the mean while, as no one felt a doubt of his most cordial pleasure in the connection, the intercourse of the two families was carried on without restraint, and no other attempt made at secrecy, than Mrs. Norris's talking of it every where as a matter not to be talked of at present.
~ Jane Austen
I declare after all ,there is no enjoyment like reading!!
~ Jane Austen
it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely;
~ Jane Austen
There is no enjoyment like reading!
~ Jane Austen
There is no other enjoyment like reading
~ Jane Austen
GândeÅŸte-te la trecut numai în m?sura în care amintirea lui îÅ£i aduce bucurie.
~ Jane Austen
lo agradable de una ocupación no es siempre prueba de su corrección.
~ Jane Austen
I deserve neither such praise nor such censure," cried Elizabeth; "I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.
~ Jane Austen
Anne could not believe in their having the same sort of pride, she was pleased with him for not liking Mrs Clay;
~ Jane Austen
One of the truths I had had to accept during my years on the couch was that pleasure was not bad, that it was natural for people to desire pleasure, that denying oneself pleasure was not healthy.
~ Jane Juska
Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man's table, or the child from a woman's breast, or the wife from a man's bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these goods in place. And others remarked to themselves how sweet these goods were, in spite of that, and saw that pleasure lost in every moment is pleasure lost forever.
~ Jane Smiley
She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another
~ Jane Smiley
that there is such pleasure in enmity that after a while it cannot be left off even if one would will it. Another thing is also true, that when a quarrel is new, one's friends hold one back, and give cool advice, but when it is long-standing, folk put off its end and goad the rivals.
~ Jane Smiley
I thought about having sex with Jess Clark and I could feel my flesh turn electric at these thoughts, cold feel sensation gather at my nipples, could feel my vagina relax and open, could feel my lips and fingertips grow sensitive enough to know their own shapes.
~ Jane Smiley
Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.
~ Jane Smiley
It seems clear, though, from the history of novel writing since Dickens's time, that the production of enduring literary art has little or no relationship to market success, except insofar as a publisher can fund the publication of more complex and difficult works with the profits of a steady stream of popular stories. Even the most "loyal" readers grow "disloyal" when the work fails to please them.
~ Jane Smiley
There were so many other things that he could add, that he doubted whether life without her offered him any pleasure at all, that he had hoped to recreate the happiness that had existed between his own parents in his union with her.
~ Janet Aylmer
Exercise improves your sex life. Ranger to Stephanie
~ Janet Evanovich
With the exception of dessert, food is food.
~ Janet Evanovich
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.
~ Janet Evanovich
Everyone knows that if you buy chocolate with spare change, then the calories don't count.
~ Janet Evanovich