Pleasures Quotes

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

~ William Wycherley

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

~ Stendhal

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

~ Vita Sackville-West

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

~ Charles Baudelaire

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

~ Marquis De Sade