Pleasure Quotes - Page 40

• In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

  Henry Adams

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin

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• My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

  Henry Adams

  Dog, Men, Rivers

  Henry Adams (1951). “Selected letters”, New York, Farrar

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• God made all pleasures innocent.

  Caroline Norton

  Innocent, Made

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1871). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.34

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• Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Too Much, Littles

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.107

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• Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Independent, Forgiving, Emptiness

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Law, Done

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• Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Circles, Earth

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• Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

  Kent Bach

  Drinking, Wine, Doe

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• Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

  Kent Bach

  Wine, Position, Expertise

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• We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why

  Kent Bach

  Wine, Appreciate, Able

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• Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Frustration, Giving

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• If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

  Fanny Mendelssohn

  Judging, Opinion, Interest

  Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”

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• What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Sorrow, Three, Vines

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• If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Should Have, Flattery, Flattered

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• Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Trifling

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• A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Democracy, Republic, Taste

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiving, Enemy, Morbid

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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• Each must drain
  His share of pleasure, share of pain.

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Share, Drains

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.88

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• When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Dream, Mean

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Perfection, Doe

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Party, Men, Views

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• If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Marriage, Girl, Money

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