Pastoral Resources

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.