I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

Pleasure is everything.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

He serves at the pleasure of the president.