“I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.” WorldGivingHas BeensPleasureCompassionMillionsProudConscienceViolentRespite Author:Audrey Hepburn
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.” WorldWellsSaidStillsBookAgeRememberSpiritualBeliefPleasureBoysForeverTakenMiddleCenturyProudWinterClockComplimentFar AwayMiddle AgesAustriaSlurs Book:The Mysterious Stranger Source: The Mysterious Stranger
“Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.” PassionFatherNamesSocialParentPleasureHistoryObjectsGreatnessProudHusbandTablesRaisedEsteemSensualEnjoyedTitlesFaithfulWarmthExcessUnclesRoman EmpireAffectionateChasteAmorous Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus
“It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.” PleasureProudSatisfactionAstonishing Author:Charles Baudelaire
“For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.” IfsHas BeensMomentsMightAbleFacesPleasureExampleSeriousProudDespairGratefulIntenseSensitivePeculiarHopelessnessDwarfsDwarvesPredicaments Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky