“Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the… — Andrew M. Greeley Copy Share Image
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Darkness does not exist at all. It is merely the absence of light but it is essential for being there even if… — Q. M. Sidd Copy Share Image
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if… — Louis Pullig De Gouy Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability. — David Platt Copy Share Image
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
“Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.” — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to learn to freely delight in God, we must first learn to be delighted in.” — Michael John Cusick Copy Share Image
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Working with people like Deepti Naval and Siddharth Malhotra is always a delight because they understand the craft and the script is… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image