Whether they give or refuse it delights women just the same to have been asked.

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.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce for wisdom piety delight or use.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

War is the statesman's game the priest's delight the lawyer's jest the hired assassin's trade.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world but the frustrating thing is I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Of course the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6 000 million talking upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier a dangerous quality in the captain and a positive crime in the statesman.

Since the printing press came into being poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is concerned to know something that may be entertaining even delightful but is certainly inessential.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

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.

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

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but if this War should continue I wish to have the most active part in it.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.