Quotes About Pleasure

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

John would have disciples in every age understand—and live like they understand—that they exist to do God's bidding, because God created all things for the doing of God's will and pleasure (4:11).

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Sorry if I interrupted your baking." Bond waved this off. "I was already done. The loaf's out of the oven now. It's one of my few pleasures left. I bake at all hours of the day and night.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure