Quotes About Pleasure

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.

Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

I hope you have enjoyed watching as much as I have enjoyed taking part.

Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

To hope is to enjoy.

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!