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Quotes About Pleasure

If he's half as taken with you as you are with yourself, I imagine he'll be well pleased.
~ Holly Black
There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.
~ Holly Black
I think of his horror at his own desire when I brought my mouth to his, the dagger in my hand, edge against his skin. The toe-curling, corrosive pleasure of that kiss. It felt as though I was punishing him- punishing him and myself at the same time. I hated him so much.
~ Holly Black
Au!' zeg ik. 'Weet je eigenlijk wel wat een beul je bent?' Nu lacht ze van oor tot oor. Als het mogelijk was, zouden haar mondhoeken helemaal opkrullen. Ze leunt naar voren. 'O, dat weet ik heus wel. En ik weet ook dat jij het lekker vindt.' Sam gniffelt. Mij kan het niet schelen. Ik vind het inderdaad lekker.
~ Holly Black
Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter
~ Holly Black
I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.
~ Holly Madison
I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.
~ Holly Madison
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
~ Honore de Balzac
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
~ Honore de Balzac
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.
~ Honore de Balzac
If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that such a girl as I am will be content with your asthmatic love, and not look for youth and good looks and pleasure by way of a variety—
~ Honore de Balzac
Hélas! Nous ne manquons jamais d'argent pour nos caprices, nous ne discutons que le prix des choses utiles ou nécessaires; nous jetons l'or avec insouciance à des danseuses, et nous marchandons un ouvrier dont la famille affamée attend la paiement d'un mémoire. Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dinent à vingt-cinque sous? Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrementles plaisirs de la vanité
~ Honore de Balzac
Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.
~ Honore de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls
~ Honore de Balzac
There everything is tolerated: the government and the guillotine, religion and the cholera. You are always acceptable to this world, you will never be missed by it. What, then, is the dominating impulse in this country without morals, without faith, without any sentiment, wherein, however, every sentiment, belief, and moral has its origin and end? It is gold and pleasure. Take
~ Honore de Balzac
O maior amor é o não correspondido. Cresce para aumentar avidez da carne; tortura para valorizar o prazer.
~ Honore de Balzac
Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it. None
~ Honore de Balzac
perhaps love is only gratitude for pleasure.
~ Honore de Balzac
Well, it is this: that pleasure is an accident in a Christian's life; it is not the aim of it; and this we learn too late.
~ Honore de Balzac
I desire only the long ecstasy of wine, And desire not to awaken.
~ Li Bai
To sew the blue-burnt edges of a gunshot wound together should require only concentration, training, deftness, ease with systems awry and how to stabilize, but with good tools, sharp blades, bright lights, I'm guessing a material's qualities become more. Professionals are adept at covering it up, but I'm pretty sure pleasure insists.
~ Unknown
No one could be expected to give up wine and books at the same time.
~ Liane Moriarty
She closed her eyes and felt everyhting: the warmth of the café, the taste of the muffin, the by now familiar smell of coffee and secondhand books.
~ Liane Moriarty
There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it.
~ Liane Moriarty