Top 20 Greatest Pleasure Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Greatest Pleasure Quotes from famous people such as Camille Claudel, Peter Carey, Jenny Shipley, Savion Glover, Truman Capote, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Peter Carey
People often think that people like me don’t have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
Jenny Shipley
I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven’t heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.
Savion Glover
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Ernest Hemingway
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
Raoul Vaneigem
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song – with a good character, a good story in it – with all I’m gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.
Robert Hunter
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
Claire Tomalin
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
Siri Hustvedt
For me, I love food. It’s my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It’s one of those things where, if you’re not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there’s a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.
Jon Favreau
Well, any teacher or coach derives his greatest pleasure in their profession or their process when they see their pupil succeed, so I would say I definitely enjoy that part of the game.
Frank Vogel
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.
Nicolas Winding Refn
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
Sabine Baring-Gould
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist – whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
Peter B. Lewis
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
John Woolman