Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
    Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary’s feet.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
    Mother Jones (1830–1930)

    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)