How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the… — Dhul-Nun al-Misri Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word, That folds its wild wings… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
