“Economy spoils pleasure.”
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Variant: Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.
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Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798Related quotes

“Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.”
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

1900s, The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)
Context: I look forward to a future when acts of war shall be formally outlawed as between civilized peoples.
All these beliefs of mine put me firmly into the anti-military party. But I do not believe that peace either ought to be or will be permanent on this globe, unless the states, pacifically organized, preserve some of the old elements of army-discipline. A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy. In the more or less socialistic future toward which mankind seems drifting we must still subject ourselves collectively to those severities which answer to our real position upon this only partly hospitable globe. We must make new energies and hardihoods continue the manliness to which the military mind so faithfully clings.

Source: Islam: the Misunderstood Religion, Chapter 7, p. 146.

“The stock market is not the economy, and the economy is not the stock market.”
repeatedly on his radio program " Marketplace APM https://www.marketplace.org/2019/09/30/the-stock-market-is-not-the-economy/" (September 2019)

“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)