Delight Quote by Andrew Lang

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for…

— Donna Jo Napoli

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible,…

— Edmund Burke

“Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its…

— Andrew Lang

“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about…

— Andrew Lang

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the…

— Andrew Lang

“I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who…

— Andrew Lang

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…

— Umberto Eco

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train…

— Ian Bogost

Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself…

— Joshua Malina

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

— Sir Fulke Greville

What a delightful thing this perspective is!

— Paolo Uccello

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

— Pierre Loti