pleasure - quotes

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914

was an US author and satirist

PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

( “The Devil's Dictionary”, 1906 )

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald, 1896-1940

was an US novelist

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

( “Tender Is the Night”, 1934 )

(Dr) Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

was an English author, critic, and lexicographer

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

( “On Education”, 1950 )

Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

was a French poet

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.