#pleasure

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

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

— Jane Austen

#half #one half #other #pleasures #understand

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#business #certain #combined #exist #former

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. ↗

— George P. Baker

#broadly #drama #gives #imitative #interest

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

#adequate #characterization #desire #dialogue #dramatic

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. ↗

— Russell Baker

#enjoy #know #left #lot #more

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued. ↗

— William Banting

#am #believing #demonstrate #further #gradual

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#enemy #experience #feeling #forgive #genuinely

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#delightful #fruit #got #happiness #into

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#look #pleasure #sinners