Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
    The man free love, the businessman free trade,
    The writer and talker free speech and free press.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn’t pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.
    Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)