Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“Miranda. My husband, then?
Ferdinand. Ay, with a heart as willing
As bondage e’er of freedom. Here’s my hand.
Miranda. And mine, with my heart in ‘t.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practise deception themselves.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)