The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.
Peter BodoTags: pleasure consistency tennis pleasure-of-recognition wimbledon
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: pleasure
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Lawrence DurrellTags: happiness pleasure tragedy
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar WildeI had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation')
Philip LarkinTags: pleasure
LADY BRACKNELL
I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
ALGERNON
I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.
I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
Tags: humor pleasure wickedness
JACK
Your duty as a gentleman calls you back.
ALGERNON
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
Tags: humor pleasure gentlemen
If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.
Savannah PageTags: life pleasure senses berlin
It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: pleasure desire fyodor-dostoyevsky
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