#delight

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#device #honestly #i #i think #kindle

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cruelty #delight #good #hell #infliction

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. ↗

— Richard Russo

#fool #how #i #movie #nobody

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. ↗

— William Safire

#basis #civilized #delight #how #knowing

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

#delights #draws #his #life #line

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#delight #despair #dreadful #end #feeds

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. ↗

— David Selby

#came #delighted #different #film #i

There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#delight #owning