Heart Asks Pleasure

Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:

    “Madame Pertelote, my worldes bliss,
    Harkneth these blissful birdes how they sing,
    And see the freshe flowers how they spring;
    Full is mine heart of revel and solace!’
    But suddenly him fell a sorrowful case,
    For ever the latter end of joy is woe.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;
    Rich the treasure;
    Sweet the pleasure;
    Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)