#plea

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#please #think #wrongly #you #yourself

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#along #coldplay #cream #guilty #ice

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#enough #eroticism #individual #justification #me

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#come #fields #groves #hills #live

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. ↗

— Lucretius

#encounters #great #over #part #peril

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. ↗

— Anna Magnani

#long #me #please #them #took

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#before #believer #day #dependent #even

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me: ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#many #me #pleasant #rewarding #rewarding experiences

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#may #opportunity #please #right #think