#pleasure

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ↗

— Anne Spencer

#alone #breakfast #enough #how #husband

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#biography #child #fiction #historical #history

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#age #almost #any #completes #costs

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#each #effectually #find #gives #liberty

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#pleasure #spontaneity

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. ↗

— Jane Grey

#felt #find #folk #good #i

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#any #character #chief #company #his

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#guilty #hobby #i #i love #life

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#labor #pleasure #reverie #thought