Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    I struggled with the horror of daybreak,
    I chose it for my lot! If questioned on
    My utmost pleasure with a man
    By some new-married bride, I take
    That stillness for a theme
    Where his heart my heart did seem....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    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)

    There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)