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Quotes About Pleasure

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
~ Robertson Davies
Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.
~ Julio Iglesias
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
~ Joseph Addison
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears
~ Stendhal
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting
~ Moliere
Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.
~ Madonna
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse
~ Benjamin Spock
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty
~ Helen Rowland
She took a little pleasure in defying him. And it was a harmless defiance, especially if he didn't know she was here.
~ Mary Connealy
you'll get chocolate all over the
~ Unknown
A group's preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.
~ Unknown
What is it we desire? pleasure, happiness. What! the pleasure of an instant, only; or that which is more solid and permanent?
~ Unknown
Lie back and enjoy, Clarissima. Last night was a synopsis. Now it's time for the unabridged version.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Ratansi was still in London; Nitya had been riding with him every day in Richmond Park, going to theatres with him and drives in his Rolls-Royce, though evidently not enjoying himself, for, as he (Nitya) wrote to Madame de Manziarly, 'Pleasures taken seriously become miserable duties.
~ Unknown
What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.
~ Unknown
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
~ Mary Shelley
You should try smiling, yourself,' he had said with a sudden flash of spirit. 'Do you never tire of being displeased, Darcy? Upon my soul, I believe you take pleasure in finding fault and looking at the world with disdain.
~ Unknown
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Considering what short lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
You cannot explain, with the limitations of language and inexperience, why your body can cause such a sudden, fumbling response in someone else, nor can you put into exact words what you feel about your body, explain the thrum it feels in proximity to another warm-skinned form. What you feel is a tangle of contradictions: power, pleasure, fear, shame, exultation, some strange wish to make noise. You cannot say how those things knit themselves together somewhere in the lower abdomen and pulse.
~ Marya Hornbacher
If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
~ Unknown
Agatha Swanburne - "So many cupcakes, so little time
~ Unknown