Pleasure Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.”

Degrees Pleasure Gentleman

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Kate Chopin

Author

“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 in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.”

Thinking Healing Pleasure

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Ovid

Poet

“That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.”

Pleasure Inviting

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Ovid

Poet

“We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.”

Joy Pleasure

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Ovid

Poet

“The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.”

Pleasure Duty Granted

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Ovid

Poet

“There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.”

Kind Pleasure

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Ovid

Poet

“In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.”

Water Sweet

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

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

Beauty Promise Pleasure

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

“The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.”

Men Pleasure Truth Is

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.”

Passion Pleasure

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.”

Pleasure Danger

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.”

Book Childhood Pleasure

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