Pastoral Resources

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.