pleasure Quotes

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:women pleasure

“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:pain memory pleasure

“any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:pleasure value

“You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Desire arising from pleasure is, other conditions being equal, stronger than desire arising from pain.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:desire pleasure

“all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

topic:knowledge pleasure

“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:self pleasure pride

“the pleasure isn’t in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:understanding pleasure

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