The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a… — Lorraine Anderson Copy Share Image
Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now… — Greg Boyle 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
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
