Pleasure Quotes

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Rebecca West

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Publilius Syrus

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William Borroughs

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Sydney J Harris

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Max Eastman

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

David Hume

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

Albert Schweitzer

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci