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Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.
It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
It is a pleasure if you pull out all your clothes out of the wardrobe and manage to fit into everything easily.
I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes.
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
To be able to call myself a New York City based musician is just a pleasure and I still get a real kick out of it.
It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.
Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.