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Delightful Quotes (page 9)

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. Thomas Hardy
The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. George Orwell
Margaret Forster quote: "She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing..."
She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing scene: she was being a snob and delighting in it. Margaret Forster
Emily Dickinson quote: "Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes. Virginia Woolf
William Blake quote: "Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night."
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. William Blake
We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. John Winthrop
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too... Charlotte Bronte
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. Philip Pullman
All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't you ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the... Plato
In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others. Christopher Hitchens
Henry David Thoreau quote: "This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense,..."
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. Henry David Thoreau
What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce asurly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent Gilbert K. Chesterton
However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. Maxim Gorky
She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance. Neil Gaiman

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