#pleasure

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #else #give #i #i think

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#give #his #like #man #pleasures

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#learn #pleasure #profit #read #which

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breaking #people #pleasure #promises #some

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#doors #enter #favor #i #me

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#nightmare #pleasure #same #them #up

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum. ↗

— John Hume

#also #awful #bit #curriculum #everybody

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#modern #pleasure #provides #speed

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#me #modern #pleasure #provides #seems