Quotes about Pleasure

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

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.