Quotes About Pleasure

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure.

'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

I'm not kidding - once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!