Delight Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me…

— John Howard Payne

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

— Peter Abrahams

Unimaginable to queens and doves I was caught between soft gasps of delight and the privileged serenity of taking in your smile That solicitous…

— Nit

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle…

— Oscar Wilde

“Instead of singing, like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory…

— Henry David Thoreau

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the…

— Milan Kundera

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

— Neil Gaiman

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

— William Butler Yeats

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my…

— Philip Sidney

I always loved messing around with words.

— Shaun Ryder

“Words have a knack of breeding more words, whereas laughter, a deafening, roaring laughter, has the knack of swallowing everything up.”

— R.K. Narayan