Quotes About Pleasure

Pleasure is like a cordial — a little bit of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

— Walter Bagehot

Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

— Aaron Burr

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at someone else’s expense.

— Henry Sambrooke Leigh

I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme.  But money gives me pleasure all the time.

— Hilaire Belloc