Delight Quotes
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Delight Quotes & Sayings
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
— Robert Frost
goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite - delight
— Erwin Raphael McManus
If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
— Francis Atterbury
A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
— William Wordsworth
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
— Paul Claudel
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.
— Robert E. Sherwood
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
— Gertrude Jekyll
Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.
— Cheryl Richardson
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ...
— Claude McKay
I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
— Mary Shelley
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
— William Hazlitt
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
— Edward Abbey
There is no delight the equal of dread
— Clive Barker
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
— William Hazlitt
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
— Seth Godin
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
— Georges Courteline
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
— John Darnielle
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight? — William Shakespeare
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
20Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
— Anonymous
Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.
— Bernadette Soubirous
It's a reminder that it's not my offerings that delight God, but my joyful acceptance of His love that brings Him pleasure (see Hos. 6:6).
— Suzanne Eller
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.
— Deepak Chopra
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
— William Shakespeare
To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.
— Matthew Henry
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
— Michel De Montaigne
I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep.
— Barbara Cohen
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
— Holly Black
Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had sparedWas enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home — Ruth Pitter
Imagined happiness is still happiness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Learning is my sole delight.
— Francesco Petrarca
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?
— Julien Gracq
was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement.
— Neil Gaiman
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
— Joseph Addison
The labour we delight in physics pain
— William Shakespeare
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
— Benjamin Franklin
Delight yourself in the Lord." Psalm 37:4
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Death is not a Hunter's delight. Too final.
— Karen Marie Moning
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
— Publilius Syrus
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle.
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.
— William Carlos Williams
What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
— Helen Keller
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
— John Charles Polanyi
Shakespeare ... If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
— Bertrand Russell
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
— Winston Churchill
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. — Peter Ackroyd
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
— Denise Duhamel
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.
— Victor Shamas
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't lose sight of user delight.
— Mark Pincus
Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.
— John Friend
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
In literature mere egotism is delightful.
— Oscar Wilde
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald
Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.
— Pamela Aidan
End of the world delight
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
— Walter Savage Landor
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Meditate with delight and run with joy.
— Sakyong Mipham
Poetry, a speaking picture ... to teach and delight
— Philip Sidney
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
— Criss Jami
Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:
— Mark Helprin
The person who calls himself a Christian, who says he loves God, yet does not seek his company and delight in it, can't be a true lover of God.
— Kris Lundgaard
Friendship, a dear balm...A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every change of place becomes a delight.
— Seneca The Younger
