Top 170 Pleasures Quotes

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

One of the pleasures of the original ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it’s fair to say ‘Watchmen’ stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate.

I’ve always loved the idea of ‘Guilty Pleasures.’

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else’s point of view of the world – living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.

I’m not a big TV guy, but I love either ‘Auction Hunters’ or those repo shows on truTV. It’s really just glorified ‘Jerry Springer’ is all it is. Every now and then, it’s just mindless entertainment. We’ll be on the bus, and we’ll laugh at it. Those are my guilty pleasures.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Apart from my work, my greatest pleasures have been mainly out-of-doors, and although I no longer ski, I greatly enjoy walking in the mountains and leading country rambles. I am fond of music, whether light or classical, and play the piano in a self-taught way. In company, I enjoy lively, way-out discussions.

I’m not in the business of meddling with people’s destinies – and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don’t belong to me.

Work, especially if you’re lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but – like all pleasures – it can become selfish.

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I’m their godfather, and that’s one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren’t many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

I’m not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys – but it’s very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, ‘Real Housewives.’

We no longer sing and dance. We don’t know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Food shouldn’t do you any harm, obviously you don’t want a bad diet, but it should be one of life’s great pleasures.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

For decades, we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the ‘masses’ want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably – as it now appears to me – by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I think in a way that’s part of getting older, appreciating the simple pleasures of being in the garden.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It’s a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I’m curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don’t mix. So I try to fight those demons.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Rereading ‘Child 44’ brought out the novel’s meatier pleasures, its ability to create vivid characters in a world both alien to our own and chillingly recognizable.

My father was in the army, and there wasn’t too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man’s dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that’s it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

I do have some guilty pleasures. I’m very keen on mayonnaise, so that’s a shame, as I’m always battling with my weight. But I do love a plate of langoustine or lobster with dollops of mayonnaise.

While the four-day work week is not yet universal, most citizens enjoy the pleasures of added three-day weekends during the year. These extra days, as well as monthlong vacations, are used in the pursuit of our studies, hobbies and travels – and often all three are indulged at the same time.

Mind and body obstruct one another’s pleasures.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it’s worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

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

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

I’ve carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I’ve always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things – pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe – of still reading Tom Wolfe – is the sense of awe he consistently inspires.

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I’d never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I’d love to return it.