Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Thomas Carlyle is incontestably dead at last, by the acknowledgment of all newspapers. I had, however, the pleasure of an intimate intercourse with him when he was an infinitely deader man than he is now.
    Henry James, Sr. (1811–1882)