Richard Steele Quotes

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

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 Repentance is quite out of date.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

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

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.