pleasure Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Married people don't look as if they have a bedroom on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

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“There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection, viz. PLEASURE or DELIGHT, and its opposite, PAIN, or UNEASINESS; POWER; EXISTENCE; UNITY mix with almost all our other Ideas.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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