The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Joshua Reynolds
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from... →
Manfred von Richthofen
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
Alan Rickman
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.
Geraldo Rivera
Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
Joan Rivers
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Nora Roberts
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you... →
John Buchanan Robinson
I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
Joel Robuchon
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld