The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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...
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
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...
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...
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?
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
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...
Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life
Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.
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...
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.