Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    “And wilt thou leave me thus?
    That hath loved thee so long
    In wealth and woe among:
    And is thy heart so strong
    As for to leave me thus?
    Say nay! say nay!”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)