Pleasure Quotes

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. (about film audiences)

Pleasure itself is not a vice.

A reveler I go, freighted with fire, not wine, beneath the region of my heart.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society, where naught intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.