Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Roland Barthes

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues

Jonathan Swift

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

Unknown

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Russell Baker

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

H L Mencken

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Oscar Wilde

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Stendhal

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Unknown

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C.S. Lewis

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Gore Vidal

Better be alone than in bad company

Thomas Fuller

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Ethel Barrymore

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of God for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Three things take the slave to God's pleasure: 1) Increase in seeking forgiveness 2) Gentleness 3) Increased charity giving

Muhammad ibn Al_al Taqi

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Aristotle

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

Antisthenes

If you have a love for the game of cricket, whether you are a player, an ex-player or simply an onlooker, many will be the pleasures in your life.

Keith Andrew

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.

Durante degli Alighieri