#delight

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#art #delightfully #excite #imagination #manner

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. ↗

— John Gay

#cowards #cruel #delight #love #mercy

The brave love mercy, and delight to save. ↗

— John Gay

#delight #love #mercy #save

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted. ↗

— Peter Asher

#delighted #get #heard #i #more

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. ↗

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

#delightful #sin #ugly #world

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun. ↗

— Steve Martin

#because #delight #director #dirty #france

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#birth #crete #death #delight #diversity

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#delighted #female #just #kind #male