... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners. — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot Copy Share Image
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of… — Kathryn Stripling Byer Copy Share Image
