Pleasure Quotes

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.
Durante degli Alighieri



Three things take the slave to God's pleasure: 1) Increase in seeking forgiveness 2) Gentleness 3) Increased charity giving
Muhammad ibn Al_al Taqi



Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn



Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn



Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Nicolas Boileau-Despraux



What a difference is there between a deed whose pleasure passes away leaving behind it the pangs of pain and punishment and the deed whose oppressive harshness comes to an end leaving behind Divine rewards !
Ali bin Abu-Talib



To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



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



The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Jane Austen



A story gives delight to read Though it be fabulous indeed. Then should a story that is true, And told in skilful manner too, Give pleasure that is full twofold. The first is in the tale as told; The second is to know full well That all is true the tale may tell.
John Barbour



Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
Charles Baudelaire



There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Charles Baudelaire



It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
Gregory Benford



Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
Chester Bennington



It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
Augustine Birrell