#pleas

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dismay #events #humanity #indecent #misfortune

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#america #apartheid #course #dictators #latin

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ↗

— Aristotle

#avoid #pain #pleasure #secure #wise

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#animal #animal life #avoiding #beasts #bodily

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ↗

— Jane Austen

#good #lady #must #novel #person

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? ↗

— Jane Austen

#attentions #delicacy #flattering #happy #i

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ↗

— Jane Austen

#half #one half #other #pleasures #understand

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#almighty #first #garden #god #god almighty

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong. ↗

— Ed Balls

#horrible #hussein #i #i am #iraq

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗