Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

CHASUBLE: Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not?JACK: Oh yes.MISS PRISM: [Bitterly.] People who live entirely for pleasure usually are.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.