Quotes About Enjoyment

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I walk: I prefer walking.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

If you are speaking of music...it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice

Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for.

But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

Qué agradable es pasar así una velada! Declaro que no hay placer como la lectura. ¡Cuánto más pronto cansa cualquier otra cosa que un libro! Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Oh! Who can be ever tired of Bath?

Even pleasure, you know, is fatiguing…

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.

If a book is well written i would find it too short.

If a book is well written i always find it too short

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Amaba el campo y los libros, y de semejantes aficiones había extraído sus principales goces.