I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details,… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense;… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end! — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato Copy Share Image
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade… — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful;… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population, pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our… — Wanda Urbanska Copy Share Image
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image