Quotes About Pleasure

Even your cruelty is a joy, Mistress.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable, the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature.

The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.

The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat of it. Of company.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

When the news reached Pharaohís house that Josephís brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”

Now Saulís daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.

So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.

“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the kingís question.”

You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”