My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can..

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for….

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger..

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state..

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides..

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity..

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

I have a family to feed..

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit..

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast..

I'm happy with what I've achieved..

You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find.

Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it..

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure..

I have not the pleasure of understanding you..