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Quotes About Pleasure

Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Chocolate is both an industry and a sensation.
~ Unknown
Critici zijn beroepshalve verkeerd-lezers. Het begint er al mee dat lezen natuurlijk nooit een beroep mag worden; je bent ook geen beroepseter of beroepswandelaar. Het is onethisch. Lezen doe je voor je plezier.
~ Unknown
Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
~ Herman E. Daly
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
~ Hermann Hesse
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
~ Heywood Broun
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
~ Heywood Broun
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
~ Heywood Broun
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
~ Hilaire Belloc
He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.
~ Hilary Mantel
Lying gives him a deep and subtle pleasure, so deep and subtle he does not know he is lying; he thinks he is the most truthful of princes.
~ Hilary Mantel
when pleasures you deny yourself turn out not to be pleasures, you're doubly destroyed, for not only do you lose an illusion, you also feel futile
~ Hilary Mantel
Henry had sat up: 'I can do as it pleases me,' his monarch said. 'God would not allow my pleasure to be contrary to his design, nor my designs to be impeded by his will.' A shadow of cunning had crossed his face. 'And Gardiner himself said so.' Henry
~ Hilary Mantel
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
~ Hillary Clinton
Enjoying life is important to everyone.
~ Hiroyuki Takei
But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked. Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.
~ Holly Black
There is a pleasure in being with them," he says. "Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes lying is a real pleasure.
~ Holly Black
I always supposed I would be delicious
~ Holly Black
But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.
~ Holly Black
She didn't want to explain the recklessness, the pleasure of making the bad choice, the glory of at least this once, picking her own path to damnation.
~ Holly Black
lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here
~ Holly Black
I was meant for the purpose of betraying the High Court. Never to survive past that. If I am the cause of Lady Nore's fall, it will give me all the more pleasure for her never having anticipated it.
~ Holly Black
It feels like a geas. It has all the sinister pleasure of sneaking out of the house, all the revolting satisfaction of stealing. It reminds me of the moment before I slammed a blade through my hand, amazed at my own capacity for self-betrayal.
~ Holly Black