Best pleasure & secret Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.”

Mean Self Success Joy Pleasure Secret Series Triumph Transcendent Condemnation

Author:Sydney Thompson Dobell

“If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.”

Ifs Knows Kind Said Stills Book Sides Pleasure Secret Wise Written Treats Details Driven Paris Intimate Fascinating Delicious Casual Amusing Lively Antagonist Syntax Meticulous Christine

Author:Rosellen Brown

“If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.”

Ifs Pleasure Secret Virtue

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.”

Giving Mean Pleasure Secret Lord Sincerity Wrath Alms

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.”

May Whole Reality Beautiful Heaven Imagination Pleasure Secret Existence Creative Wind Shapes Letters Clouds Destroyed Regions Arrivals Pleasures Of Life

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.”

Humans Pleasure Secret Divine Misery Divine Wisdom

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.”

Way Should Pleasure Secret Poet Reader Findings Revealing Ingenious Matched Unlocking

Author:Diane Wakoski

“I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.”

Pleasure Secret Protest Plague Secrecy Vow

Book:The Clandestine Marriage

Source: The Clandestine Marriage

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”

Long Lying Suffering Pleasure Secret Comfort Chiefs Contentment Alas Trifles Great Ones Cultivating Lease Vex Small Pleasures

Author:Richard Sharp

“If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?”

Source: Kingsor's Last Summer

“They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.”

People Country Social Pleasure Secret Heard Ease Generous Decent

Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh

“If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.”

Ifs Life Humans Death Evil Pleasure Secret Meditation Effects Reflection Intense Miserable Human Life Intimate Life Death Poisoning Rendering Miserable Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.”

Pleasure Secret Contempt Masturbation

Author:Mason Cooley

“The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.”

Knows Men Art Jobs Enjoy Difficult Pleasure Secret Enjoyment Avoidance Cowardly

Author:Alan Watts

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.”

Mind Facts Suffering Passion Hurt Pleasure Secret Watches Clear Sadness Sad Enormous Arise Transformed Escaping

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."”

Thinking World Way Needs Mean Desire Pleasure Secret Building Conflict Pressure Overwhelming Relieved Secretive

Author:Philip Schultz

“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Kind Moving Lines Pleasure Levels Secret Fiction Focus Capable Woods Moving Forward Rough Builder Cathedrals Caterpillars Rough Drafts

Author:Karen Russell

“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.”

People Realizing Pleasure Secret Failing Special Happenings

Author:Adolf Hitler

Pleasure Quotes

Related topics

Pleasure Quotes