Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and… — Sally Kellerman Copy Share Image
Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are… — Jean Patou Copy Share Image
As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep.… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is nothing can equal the tender hours When life is first in bloom, When the heart like a bee, in a… — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I… — Doris Eaton Travis Copy Share Image
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
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