Quotes: pleasure
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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Voltaire
French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet)
1694-1778
Work is often the father of pleasure.
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
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A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
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