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Quotes About Pleasure

We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man? You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than procreation are sluts.
~ Leora Tanenbaum
Come on, big boy," she said. "I guess it don't matter what it cost since you didn't ask, but that forty, that's for head. You want to put it in, that's forty more.
~ Les Edgerton
I do love foreplay," he whispered against her lips. "Days and days worth of it. I want to look forward to you like a kid looks forward to Christmas.
~ Leslie Kelly
If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
~ lesser elizabeth ii
Shopping, true feminine felicity !
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right?
~ Lev Grossman
Her white fox fur was coarse and smooth at the same time, and she made little yipping snarls every time he pushed himself deeper inside her. He never wanted to stop.
~ Lev Grossman
Couldn't she see that they were all dying, that everything was futile, that the only thing to do was to live and drink and fuck whatever and whomever while you still could?
~ Lev Grossman
He had reached the outer limits of what Fun, capital F, could do for him. The cost was way too high, the returns pitifully inadequate.
~ Lev Grossman
The dark liquid looked black in the glass, and she had to restrain herself from gulping it. Fresh tobacco. Black currants. God, it was so good. She kept it in her mouth for a count of ten before she swallowed. If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.
~ Lev Grossman
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
~ leverson ada
Not all men, of course, care to think seriously of death, but all men, in normal circumstances, run spontaneously from danger, unless to risk it is their duty or their pleasure.
~ levy john
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.
~ lewes george henry
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven -- a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all".
~ lewis c s vii
"O Oysters, come and walk with us!"The Walrus did beseech."A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,Along the briny beach."
~ Lewis Carroll
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
~ Lewis Grizzard
In times of peace, kings and nobles lived by the pleasure principle: eating, drinking, hunting, playing games, copulating, all in ostentatious excess. So at the very period when the myth of the machine was taking form, the problems of an economy of abundance first became visible in the behavior and fantasies of the ruling classes-here, too, mirroring in advance the processes at work in our own age.
~ Lewis Mumford
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
~ Mark Feuerstein
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
~ Horace
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
~ Dorothea Dix
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
~ Zadie Smith
To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully.
~ William Cobbett
The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure.
~ Robert Zubrin