#delight

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exaggeration #fear #go #humility #limits

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest

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

— George Sand

#delights #draws #his #life #line

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. ↗

— David Selby

#came #delighted #different #film #i

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delight #game #hired #jest #lawyer

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delights #exists #pain #pleasure #shadow

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#delight #discovery #love is #others #ourselves

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#business #delight #go #love #rise

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#count #country #course #delight #directed

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#consists #delight #desiring #feeling #give