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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination

Life

Delight

Order

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Charles de Montesquieu

Love

Delight

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Michelangelo

Delight

Pain

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

Norman McLaren

Delight

Philosophy

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

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.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

Delight

Singing