Top 100 Quotes About Delight
#1. In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight
Hugh Massingberd
#2. Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.
Franz Schubert
#4. What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?
Immanuel Kant
#6. I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#8. When love burns toward the Savior a sincere passion to render obedience to all of His precepts is our desire, our delight and our holy obsession.
Albert Martin
#9. If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
Rajneesh
#10. In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?
Dana Gioia
#11. Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
John Milton
#12. If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
Helen Keller
#13. When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.
William Shakespeare
#14. Nothing can quite take the place of reading a good book out loud together. It can be calming, comforting, and inspiring. It is a powerful opportunity to bond and share in the delight of a good story.
Linda Lantieri
#15. Writing, which used to be my delight, has become an almost forgotten art with me.
Harry Haskell
#16. Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
Plato
#17. Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country ... with hope and delight.
Louis Auchincloss
#18. Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.
Richard Jefferies
#19. To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J.B. Priestley
#20. Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight
Ovid
#21. The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.
Maximus The Confessor
#22. There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace
Bernard Hinault
#23. He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. But whenever the church fails to mediate God's counterintuitive delight in broken people, the pain of sin will only be magnified until it suffocates our souls. Good deeds and spiritual lingo can't heal a human heart suffocated by evil. Only grace can. Rich, embodied, earthy charis.
Preston Sprinkle
#25. When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Delight becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain,
More fair, because impossible
That any gain.
The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,
And that 's the skies!
Emily Dickinson
#27. Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.
Pamela Paul
#28. You are a fucking delight, princess. It's like you know the dirty jokes in my head I'm too scared to make in front of you.
Melanie Harlow
#29. fool does not delight in understanding, but only wants to show off his opinions.
Anonymous
#30. Hebrews is a delight for the person who enjoys puzzles...It invites engagement in the task of defining the undefined.
William L. Lane
#31. And Rune, her heart beating hard with delight, leapt into the middle of the battle. That was what she needed, wanted, craved. The fight.
Laken Cane
#32. The gospel isn't merely the absence of all condemnation; it's also the fullness of God's delight lavished on us in Christ.
Scotty Smith
#33. To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
John Calvin
#34. Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
Gautama Buddha
#35. The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be.
Rumi
#36. Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
Mikhail Bakunin
#37. In your arms was still delight,
Quiet as a street at night;
And thoughts of you, I do remember,
Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
Rupert Brooke
#38. One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
John Milton
#39. And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.
Thomas Paine
#40. Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
#41. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#42. Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.
Irving Townsend
#43. What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser
#45. It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them.
Philip Kotler
#46. Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.
Erik Naggum
#47. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#48. When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.
Charles Bukowski
#49. There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
Samuel Johnson
#51. I have 17 nieces and nephews, who are a pure delight. We have hiked and biked and fasted and prayed together.
Sheri L. Dew
#52. Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;
He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends
Stephen Spender
#53. Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
#54. Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.
Amy E. Reichert
#55. If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight.
Ron Kaufman
#56. Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.
John Friend
#57. The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
Walter Raleigh
#58. Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
David Mamet
#59. And when we're living a life of perpetual time famine, we rob ourselves of our ability to experience another key element of the Third Metric: wonder, our sense of delight in the mysteries of the universe, as well as the everyday occurrences and small miracles that fill our lives.
Arianna Huffington
#60. By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
John Henry Newman
#61. You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Italo Calvino
#62. All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
Horace
#63. All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.
Jane Austen
#64. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
John Piper
#65. 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
#66. Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
Mason Cooley
#68. The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and the back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern.
John Steinbeck
#69. Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
Seth Godin
#71. 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
#72. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
William Butler Yeats
#73. Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.
Mason Cooley
#74. In fact, she was happy for Iko, who took more delight in her new body than most humans ever did.
Marissa Meyer
#75. When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.
Elizabeth George
#76. I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Oscar Wilde
#77. Hubert, the great friend of Perceval, has only the steward's steward to bid him farewell," Wido said, clapping young Josson's back with undisguised delight. "The depth of Perceval's true love for Hubert is finally revealed." Josson smiled uneasily. "My lord Hector is busy with
Angela Elwell Hunt
#78. Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. She walks
the lady of my delight
A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.
Alice Meynell
#80. The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.
Philip J. Davis
#81. The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
Franz Grillparzer
#82. Have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
Anonymous
#83. The trouble with Ascendants is that they try to rig every game. Of course, we delight in ... uncertainty. A
Steven Erikson
#84. An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
#85. As I lifted her up in my arms, my heart racing with delight;
I knew in that moment, my bookmark had found a new home for a night;
Ray
#86. Maybe your family is more drama than delight, more crazy than kind? I can't say that your family will ever understand or bless you, but I know God will. Let God give you what your family doesn't. If your earthly family doesn't support you, then let your heavenly one take its place.
Max Lucado
#87. My arrival
Her womb's delight
Her existence
My living light
Her wounds
My scars
Her skies
My stars
Her days
My hours
Her strength
My powers
I breathe my name
Being her child
Without mother
Life's beguiled
From the poem 'Mother
Munia Khan
#88. The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities.
Kim Harrison
#89. Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.
Deepak Chopra
#90. What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.
Zoe Weil
#91. Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.
Rumi
#92. June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.
Rick Riordan
#93. Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go,
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you.
Greg Boyle
#95. In order to encourage us to have confidence and trust He comes near us by His holy Word and Spirit, and seeks in a thousand ways to win our confidence. But in nothing does He take more delight than in receiving the weak who come to Him for strength.
Ellen G. White
#96. Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."
James Russell Lowell
#97. I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
Roald Dahl
#98. Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
Helen Dunmore
#99. You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work ... Finding family members ... can bring immense joy.
Russell M. Nelson
#100. Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
Virginia Woolf
