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Pleasure Quotes
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand Quotes
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. - Arthur Helps Quotes
Choreography is mentally draining, but theres a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. - Alvin Ailey Quotes
Pride is pleasure arising from a mans thinking too highly of himself. - Baruch Spinoza Quotes
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. - Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with ones self. - Lydia Lunch Quotes
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. - Simon Callow Quotes
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. - Auguste Rodin Quotes
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. - Tony Benn Quotes
When Im writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. - Shane Macgowan Quotes
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. - Martin Van Buren Quotes
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. - George F Kennan Quotes
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. - John Selden Quotes
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. - Abraham Clark Quotes
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. - Samuel Johnson Quotes
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. - Frederick Ii Quotes
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above. - Manfred Von Richthofen Quotes
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. - Pierre Bonnard Quotes
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. - Robert B Laughlin Quotes
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. - Michel De Montaigne Quotes
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. - Kinky Friedman Quotes
The ability to take pleasure in ones life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. - Todd Solondz Quotes
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
I never learned anything at all in school and didnt read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. - Stanley Kubrick Quotes
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen Quotes
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle Quotes
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. - Joseph Addison Quotes
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. - Doris Lessing Quotes
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