The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could...
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little...
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharp...
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures
Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?
It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking on, or sex. Novels have their obligatory tour-de-force, the green-flecke...
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all...
Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.
It is as though our dreams were watching us and directing our lives with external vigour whilst we simply enact their pleasures passively, in a swoon.
Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life