There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution,…

— Samuel Johnson

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions,…

— Samuel Johnson

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is…

— Samuel Johnson

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle,…

— Francis Quarles

The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be…

— Alex Kozinski

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

— Robert Genn

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…

— Umberto Eco

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train…

— Ian Bogost

Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself…

— Joshua Malina

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

— Sir Fulke Greville

What a delightful thing this perspective is!

— Paolo Uccello

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

— Pierre Loti

“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact…

— Sy Montgomery

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

— Martin Luther

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter