Quotes about Pleasure

What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.

The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily