I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Lord Byron )
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. (Lord Byron )
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. (Lord Byron )
Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,
Sighed to think, I read a book
Only read, perhaps, by me. (Lord Byron )
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. (Lord Byron )
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. (Lord Byron )
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. (Lord Byron )
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Lord Byron )
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Lord Byron )
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. (Lord Byron )
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. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. (Lord Byron )
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. (Lord Byron )
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. (Lord Byron )
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. (Lord Byron )
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. (Lord Byron )
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. (Lord Byron )
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. (Lord Byron )
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. (Lord Byron )
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. (Lord Byron )
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. (Lord Byron )
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