I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display.
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.