I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it — whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the… — Charles Dickens 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
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. — David Zippel Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past,… — James Beattie 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
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image