pleasure Quotes

“Pleasure is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:memory past pleasure

“He who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:marriage pleasure

“human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:pleasure kindness

“He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“The third principle is the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:love good pleasure

“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

topic:time pleasure

“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

topic:life pleasure

“the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:pleasure food

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