#delightful

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

#delightful #reading #love

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#delightful #insulting #pretty #professional #reputation

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#belongs #calls #delightful #everybody #good

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#beautiful #become #both #bring #day

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#belief #delightful #given #had #him

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#experience #had #those #war #who

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ↗

— Lord Byron

#acting #am #delightful #good #good acting

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#delightful #doing #duty #feels #floating

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ↗

— Herodotus

#delightful #hiding #men #place #weary