PLEASURE QUOTES

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another’s rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure?

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

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

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things