#delight

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

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#bring #delight #down #itself #level

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. ↗

— Michelangelo

#delight #every #fountain #gentle #pain

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#i #i quit #institution #involved #iron

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. ↗

— Colin Firth

#actually #become #delighted #find #i

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#bits #delighted #grateful #happen #happy

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#consider #delight #i #know #lost