Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us..

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it..

Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself..

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is li….

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this ….

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure..

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction..

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain..

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life..

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves..

No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result i….

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure..

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty..

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet..

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you..

To what do I owe the pleasure?.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives..

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has..

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in….

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible prec….