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She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.


Christopher Isherwood

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SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised
SIDONIE GABRIELLE I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
CLAIRE DANES Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it's someone else's.
CLIVE BARKER The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.
TAHIR SHAH She walks - the lady of my delight - / A shepherdess of sheep.
ALICE MEYNELL When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w...
JAMES D. WATSON When you take delight in watching someone you believe hurt you suffer, it is not justice, it is cold...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
THOMAS GRAY What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand, For Rich...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thought ... that I was carried in the will of Him I love, but now I see that I walk with it. I tho...
C.S. LEWIS In literature mere egotism is delightful.
OSCAR WILDE Deep within, she is attuned to His Love, intoxicated with delight, her enemies and sufferings are al...
GURU NANAK My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
ROBERT BRIDGES My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH They squealed with delight and clapped their flippers when they saw their trainers.
DAILY EXPRESS The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Delight is God’s why behind the justice, righteousness, and steadfast love He practices. It’s no...
JESSICA NICHOLAS True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
PHILIP PULLMAN The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify h...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Boredom is the Devil's delight.
LINDSEY RIETZSCH She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
DAVID BOWIE That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
UNKNOWN Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is eternal delight
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.
RICHARD LOVELACE That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
A. BRONSON ALCOTT That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
AMOS ALCOTT Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can ...
ALAN JACOBS It's a delight to win.
GRAEME SOUNESS Had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY Look, stranger, at this island now / The leaping light for your delight discovers.
W. H. AUDEN We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
KARL LAGERFELD The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN Intelligence is nothing without delight.
PAUL CLAUDEL To delight is to desire.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.
THOMAS MANN The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention
JULIA CAMERON Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
EDMUND SPENSER Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
SOCRATES Consider yourself as always wrong, as having gone aside, and lost your right path, when any delight,...
WILLIAM LAW The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT A lonely impulse of delight
W.B. YEATS She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE It would delight Van Miller if someone retires from here with their stock value being somewhere equa...
JIM WALSH Angels listen when she speaks:She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder;But my jealous heart would bre...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Delight yourself with imagination and artistry and be inspired by life’s beauty.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor...
CHAMPFLEURY Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community...
JOHN MASEFIELD To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she sto...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN Live in the now. Love your life right now. Laugh, delight your senses and give your soul permission ...
JANINE LATTIMORE I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confu...
CRAIG SILVEY The show is a delight for the entire family.
BILL WALLACE Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
CHARLES DICKENS You are the fabric of God’ s delight!
CATHERINE TOON The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invent...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invente...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blo...
GEORGE SANTAYANA [Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision.
LORD HAILSHAM Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
ALEXANDER SMITH Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
ALEXANDER SMITH All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...
DORIS LESSING I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight Each mother's son and daughter,-- When qual...
LORD CHARLES NEAVES The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
VINCENT MCNABB Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring s...
ANDREW MARVELL Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws....
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tell me a story of deep delight.
ROBERT PENN WARREN She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA A delight to read is a great treasure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
ENGLISH PROVERB An engaging conversation is a two-way street. Learn to delight in dialogue to ensure mutual respect ...
SUSAN C. YOUNG The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
WILLIAM BLAKE Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we�...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
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CHRISTOPHER LEACH When I went back to Iraq again, after the liberation was complete, I was myself engaged on a sort of...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Infinite riches in a little room.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY