pleasure Quotes

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

topic:understanding pleasure

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

topic:happiness pleasure

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:pleasure satisfaction

“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

topic:self stupidity pleasure

“But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:pleasure soul

“For such Truth, as opposeth no man profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:truth pleasure

“Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.”

― Woody Allen, Side Effects

topic:reality pleasure food

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:work reading pleasure

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:foolishness pleasure

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