Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of... →
Richard Avedon
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of... →
Enid Bagnold
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
Fredrik Bajer
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very... →
George Pierce Baker
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
Christian Bale
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their... →
J. G. Ballard
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthus
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.