(462 quotes found)
“How delightful to find a friend in everyone.”
Joseph Brodsky
“He wants to stay and I couldn't be more delighted.”
Rick Parry
“You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.”
William Law
“The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”
Washington Irving
“Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations. There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects.”
Gerard Hoffnung
“How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.”
Charles Crumb
“She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight.”
William Wordsworth
“If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.”
Henry Fox
“And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.”
Virgil
