Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    “I haven’t the heart to poke poor Billy.”
    —Harry Graham (1874–1936)

    “I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “If variety is capable of filling every hour of the married state with the highest joy, then might it be said that Lord and Lady Dellwyn were completely blessed, for every idea that had the power of raising pleasure in the bosom of the one, depressed that of the other with sorrow and affliction.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)