Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answ….

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time ….

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it..

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed..

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing ….

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life..

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission..

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome..

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream..

The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates pla….

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite..

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure..

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage..

The excess of pleasure is pain.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life..

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer..

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source..

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced..