Quotes About Pleasure

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.

Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.