Pleasure Quotes

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.

William Henley

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

Plato

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Jane Austen

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C.S. Lewis

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

C.S. Lewis

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity

Germaine Greer

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
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