Greatest Pleasure Quotes
Life's simple, honest joys.
These greatest pleasure quotes cover a wide range — proving doubters wrong, re-reading a favorite book, and the particular Delight of language that has its own inner music.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
Delight Quotes
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create...
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I...
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Emotion Quotes
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But...
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.
Experience Quotes
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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One entry keeps it simple: time with family outranks everything else. See our Experience quotes for more on what makes life feel full, or browse our Joy collection.
