#pleasure

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure? ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#fat #i #just #like #meals

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. ↗

— Anne Rice

#pain #pleasure

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#compensates #misery #pleasure #rare #seen

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational #pleasure #age

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#art-form #cooking #dinner #food #food-for-thought

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #mystery #pleasure #work #art

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fragile #peace-of-mind #pleasure #treasures #beauty

As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#courage

Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#griffinlordsexy #notorious-pleasures #communication