“Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?”

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

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]”

“The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.”

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are its songs of creation.

“At the age of 81, I am left with one pleasure and that's passive smoking. I love it.”

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

sex is just not about love or pleasure; it has its share of passion, hard work and creativity.