Quotes About Pleasure

As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.

But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness

Algunos moralistas razonaron que la posesión de monedas no siempre determina la felicidad y que otras formas de la dicha son quizá más directas.

In a bronze chamber, before the silent handkerchief of the strangler, hope has been faithful to me, as has panic in the river of pleasure.

Let no one reduce us to the status of ascetics. There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

There is an entry in Baudelaire's Journal Intime that is fearful in the precision of its cynicism: "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Aurore sketched—it would always be her pleasure—and scribbled—it was her passion...

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!

I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.

There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.

Women are beautiful, and yummy.

Live in rooms full of light Avoid heavy food Be moderate in the drinking of wine Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water Change surroundings and take long journeys Strictly avoid frightening ideas Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements Listen to music.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "but don't bother about the bread, please.

it all comes of liking honey so much.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

When you need to escape life's rough edges for a few hours, nothing could beat seeing a great film.

Aunque sus gustos eran sencillos, se trataba de esa sencillez que solamente se satisface a base de cosas buenas.

It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.

As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather low artistic mentality never to believe anything you see unless it appears to be real. One must be willing to allow that symbolic things also mirror realities and sometimes provide greater esthetic pleasure than the merely realistic.

I really like listening to music in my car.