Pleasure Quotes

There is a pleasure in having no pleasure.[Qu’il y a du plaisir à n’avoir pas de plaisir.]

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.[Les hommes peuvent avoir plusieurs sortes de plaisirs. Le véritable est celui pour lequel ils quittent l’autre.]

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the unhappiest is he who feels the least pleasure.[Le plus heureux est celui qui souffre le moins de peines; le plus misérable est celui qui sent le moins de plaisir.]

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of one’s self as cause.

Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.

Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility does not.[Nydelsen skuffer, Muligheden ikke.]

Pleasure being caused by the union of sensation and sentiment, we can say without fear of contradiction that pleasures are a sort of material ideas.[Le plaisir étant causé par l’alliance des sensations et d’un sentiment, on peut hardiment prétendre que les plaisirs sont des espèces d’idées matérielles.]

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.