Delightful Quote by Samuel Johnson

Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution,…

— Samuel Johnson

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions,…

— Samuel Johnson

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is…

— Samuel Johnson

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle,…

— Francis Quarles

The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be…

— Alex Kozinski

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

— Robert Genn

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