It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.
It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.