Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
““It was the mask engaged your mind,
And after set your heart to beat,
Not what’s behind.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““Must we burn Sade?” asks Mme de Beauvoir. Now that you mention it, why not? The world is littered with literature. And Sade teaches us little about human nature which we couldn’t gather from a few minutes of honest introspection.”
—D.J. Enright (b. 1920)
“I have been to see Henry James, and like him very much. It was a great pleasure to meet him. It makes humanity seem more erect and respectable. I never was more kindly and faithfully catechised. It made me respect myself more to be thought worthy of such wise questions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)