Top 100 Quotes About Giving Pleasure
#1. She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?
George R R Martin
#2. She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation
Jane Austen
#3. Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Kiki Dee
#4. I'm giving pleasure to you. Don't interfere.
Olga Goa
#5. She was as inept at causing pain as she was at giving pleasure. Strange lioness, indeed! She thought she possessed claws, but when she tried to bare them, nothing emerged from her magnificent velvet paws. Her scratches were of velvet!
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
#7. I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
Hayley Westenra
#8. Real love ... is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.
Paul Auster
#11. There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.
Marina Anderson
#12. Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
James Stewart
#13. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
#14. One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
Chanakya
#15. If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
Tryon Edwards
#16. Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
Robert Herrick
#17. Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
C.S. Lewis
#18. Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
Robert Frost
#19. What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
John Lancaster Spalding
#20. What have I done? Most lasses like it when a man kills the bugs. Along with reaching high places and giving sexual pleasure, it's one of the few universally popular qualities we have on offer."
-Logan
Tessa Dare
#22. Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different ... I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison
#24. He took her as though she were a toy, a toy or a closed rosebud which he brought into bloom each night of pleasure. [She] began to lose her timidity, giving herself over to that lascivious union, growing in response, turning into a heartsome, spirited lover.
Jorge Amado
#25. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.
Pankaj Mishra
#26. You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.
Jean Baudrillard
#27. A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
Socrates
#28. Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.
LaMar Boschman
#29. Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.
Norman Lock
#30. The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.
Susan Sontag
#31. Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.
Richard J. Foster
#32. Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle.
#33. I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.
Lucy Knisley
#34. Anything with the ability to reduce my world-weary husband to a stammering mess while giving him such pleasure deserved a serious time investment.
Kylie Scott
#35. Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because ... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
Maimonides
#36. As a young woman in politics, it also gives me great pleasure to see additional female cabinet representation here today. You know, these are very high levels of representation for women around the cabinet table and I think that that's something that's very important to me.
Michelle Rempel
#37. For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.
Michael Hintze
#39. I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.
Marc Jacobs
#40. Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
Oscar Wilde
#41. Tease?" he groaned. "Ah, baby, I'm not teasing you. I'm giving to you. Giving you every ounce of pleasure I know how to give you."
-Jordan(Live Wire) to Tehya (Enigma)
Lora Leigh
#42. Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
Mikhail Lermontov
#43. Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
John Ruskin
#44. Hence the mere chance of seeing Will occasionally was like a lunette opened in the wall of her prison, giving her a glimpse of the sunny air; and this pleasure began to nullify her original alarm at what her husband might think about the introduction of Will as her uncle's guest. On
George Eliot
#45. Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others ... cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
#46. What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
Oscar Wilde
#48. Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
Stendhal
#49. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.
Colleen Hoover
#50. The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try to find it in the gratification of desire; we seek it in animal pleasure. Happiness lives in giving, in doing, not in getting, in grasping.
Orison Swett Marden
#51. If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
#52. Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.
Mason Cooley
#53. Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
Adrienne Monnier
#54. Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.
Shams Tabrizi
#55. When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands - even if we don't feel like it - God will reward us with pleasure.
Carolyn Mahaney
#56. Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.
Julie Newmar
#57. Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.
Oliver Sacks
#58. As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
William Arthur Ward
#59. There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Charles Baudelaire
#60. Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#61. Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.
Simon May
#62. When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.
Paulo Coelho
#63. What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire
#64. The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.
Allen Carr
#65. Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
Benito Mussolini
#67. I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life ... It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#68. Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
Anushka Sharma
#69. I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#70. Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
Nat Hentoff
#71. Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
Peter Kreeft
#72. I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
Bell Hooks
#73. Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.
Paul McCabe
#74. I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.
Lorena Ochoa
#75. Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?
Eric Rucker Eddison
#76. Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need ... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
Simon Barnes
#77. The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
Ted Sizer
#78. People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.
Charles Garfield
#79. Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
John Dryden
#80. The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Juvenal
#81. My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.
Jonathan Franzen
#83. Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth. There won't be a place you hide where I can't find you. I will never stop looking. I will never give up. I will never let you go when I can save you. - Mitchell Thorpe
Shayla Black
#84. The bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.
Rebecca West
#85. Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege.
Hisham Matar
#86. It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Charles E. McKenzie
#87. The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.
Saint Francis De Sales
#88. His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Ann Brashares
#89. It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
Plato
#90. Come, let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Bonaventure
#91. Everyone knew the hero in any good romance had to have his fair share of experience. If he didn't, how was he going to be a good teacher, showing his lady love how to give him pleasure at the same time giving her more than she'd ever dreamed?
Kristen Ashley
#92. Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Lord Chesterfield
#93. Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
Rumi
#94. Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.
Richard Steele
#95. God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
Victor Hugo
#96. Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Thomas Edward Brown
#97. I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
Vivien Leigh
#98. The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever. While they're leaving, give them a crazy laugh and say, 'It was a meet to pleasure you'.
Dan Cummins
#99. Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
Arthur Helps
#100. To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
Francesco Guicciardini
