Pastoral Resources

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

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.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.