Words matter. These are the best Pleasure Quotes from famous people such as Leo Howard, Emily Bronte, Josh Henderson, St. Jerome, Francois Fenelon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
If I’m in a relationship, I’m 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that’s just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven’t found that right girl yet.
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.
I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it… Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I’ve had the pleasure of working in.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren’t demands and you don’t need to reply. They’re simply for pleasure.
I’m very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible… but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Throughout my years, I’ve had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.
Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.
If I see an orchid that’s fantastically expensive, I’ll buy it. It’s worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.
All desirable things… are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I’ve ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people – we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
‘Project Runway’ was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man’s mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term ‘still’ seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me but to all the broadcasters – all media, really, you have to say.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that’s appropriate for the character.
Wales was a great pleasure. It’s the biggest honor I’ve ever had, to lead my country.
People – and I include myself – get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
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.
I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful vinyl record with the sleeve and the lyrics – all that kind of tactile experience that you could get from an old vinyl record.
