#plea

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#being #had #human #human being #i

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

Variety is the soul of pleasure. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#soul #variety

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. ↗

— Max Cannon

#around #i #just #messing #pleasure

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#deception #pleasing

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#fair #great #pleases #turn