#delight

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#always #delightful #doubt #english #every

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#enjoy #enjoy life #imagination #immature #immortal

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. ↗

— Carre Otis

#alone #breaks #country #delight #family

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#a new day #always #been #behind #bit

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#child #delight #delighted #find #happiness

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#delight #fashion #heaven #nobody #our

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#actress #barking #completely #delightful #i

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#deprive #kids #many #olympics #seeing

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#anything #become #bomb #delighted #enthusiastic

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#become #been #british #brought #cable