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Quotes About Delight

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.
~ Jim Butcher
Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
~ Jim Butcher
Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
~ Jim Butcher
Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide.
~ Jim Butcher
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.
~ Jim Butcher
DÄ›ti. Musíte je mít rádi. Já se jich nem?žu nabažit. TroÅ¡ku soli, pokapat citronem - dokonalé.
~ Jim Butcher
That's kind of awesome," I said. "Children frequently are," Michael said.
~ Jim Butcher
Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards.
~ Jim Butcher
I've never met a lasagna I didn't like
~ Jim Davis
Sugartown Sugartown Sugartown Sugartown.
~ Unknown
Life is short, have dessert first.
~ Unknown
Chocolate's not seasonal. It's good any time of the year. Chocolate's like oxygen. It's elemental.
~ Joanne Fluke
And it is partly the transience of it that delights me; so much loving preparation, so much art and experience, put into a pleasure that can last only a moment, and which only a few will ever fully appreciate.
~ Joanne Harris
When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.
~ Jodi Picoult
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
~ Sydney Smith
Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.
~ Unknown
I like being bad. It makes me happy.
~ Unknown
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
~ Vincent Price
No, what mattered here was that Alice had spent a lifetime struggling to become a conscious human being whose primary delight was the use of her own mind; and now she was locked up in an atmosphere constructed to ignore—nay, discard—that long, valiant effort, when the only thing owed a human being—yes, from first to last—was to have it honored.
~ Vivian Gornick
Illusion is the first of the pleasures
~ Voltaire
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
~ Voltaire
Whatever its actual content and overt interest, every poem is rooted in imaginative awe. Poetry can do a hundred and one things, delight, sadden, disturb, amuse, instruct—it may express every possible shade of emotion, and describe every conceivable kind of event, but there is only one thing that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being and for happening.
~ W. H. Auden
This was the sort of challenge that delighted Hearst, who, according to one who knew him well, regarded journalism as 'an enchanted playground in which giants and dragons were to be slain simply for the fun of the thing.
~ Unknown
A lonely impulse of delight
~ W.B. Yeats