Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful excercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.
I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us
I love the French language. . . it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.