#pleas

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#gall #hath #heart #her #honey

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. ↗

— Robert Quine

#early #experience #i #into #lessons

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pleasure #time #jane-austen

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#am #distinctions #fact #food #honored

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#i #i can #less #life #nothing

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#activities #back #believe #blues #comes

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. ↗

— William Wycherley

#finding #mistress #new #next #old

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#appealed #buy #disparate #each #enough

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#best #february #lavish #level #move