Quotes About Pleasure

La lectura no es un placer sustitutivo.

Tout le plaisir des jours est en leurs matinées

Le plaisir est une merveille, qui m'apprend que je suis moi. Moi, c'est le siège du plaisir. Le plaisir, c'est moi: chaque fois qu'il y aura du plaisir, il y aura moi. Pas de plaisir sans moi, pas demi sans plaisir !

Cada cual tiene su moral. Juzgo los actos con la vara de medir del placer que proporcionan. El éxtasis voluptuoso es la suprema meta de la existencia, y no necesita justificación alguna. Pero, sin placer, el crimen es un mal gratuito, un sórdido daño. Resulta indefendible.

Un jour, un homme très sérieux m'a dit que si on jouissait en faisant l'amour, c'était parce qu'on créait la vie. Vous vous rendez compte? Comme s'il pouvait y avoir quelque jouissance à créer une chose aussi triste et moche que la vie!

Le meurtre a ceci de comparable avec l'acte sexuel qu'il est souvent suivi de la même question : que faire du corps ?

Clearly, she was enjoying herself to see that woman hurt. It was nothing she had desired. Nor did it seem as if she could control it, this inhuman sweet sensation to see another human being squirming. It hit her like a stone, the knowledge that there is pleasure in hurting. A strong three-dimensional pleasure, an exclusive masculine delight that is exhilarating beyond all measure. And this too is God's gift to man? She wondered.

Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.

My greatest weakness is... food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

My weakness is chocolate - especially butterscotch and nut varieties.

I have to admit that I have a massive weakness for Italian food, which is not very light but so good!

I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

I love to eat, it's my main thing, my biggest weakness.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

If you don't have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up.

There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.

For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.