Top 100 Quotes About Delight
#1. To laugh is to live profoundly ... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak of delight. Laughter of delight, delight of laughter ... it is an expression of being rejoicing at being ...
Milan Kundera
#2. 22And Samuel said, w Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, x to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Anonymous
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Brian Halligan
#4. ... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer.
Ann Radcliffe
#5. Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man - all this will be as nothing to the delight of which I speak.
Roland Barthes
#6. Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
Wendell Berry
#7. An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
Pam Brown
#8. In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
Thomas Tusser
#9. I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.
Marilynne Robinson
#10. our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders;
Anonymous
#11. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...
Walt Whitman
#12. I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
Jan Hus
#13. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.
John Davies Of Hereford
#14. Unholy delight lit Giles's dark face to flashing brilliance. She realized that while he mightn't be handsome, he was breathtakingly attractive and brimming with potent masculinity more powerful than mere good looks.
Anna Campbell
#15. And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
Pope Gregory I
#16. He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
Albrecht Durer
#18. Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feeling
in a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman.
Will Durant
#19. If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
Amelie Nothomb
#20. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.
Christina Dodd
#22. Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.
Sarah Fielding
#24. The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!
E. Stanley Jones
#25. Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.
C.S. Lewis
#26. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.
Laini Taylor
#27. Beauty brings warmth, elegance and grandeur. Something in our souls longs deeply for that graciousness and delight. When we advert to the presence of beauty, the direction, rhythm and energy of our lives become different. The
John O'Donohue
#28. In the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart ... It's motto is
" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
Oswald Chambers
#29. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
Anonymous
#30. And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
Kahlil Gibran
#31. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#32. Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.
Francesco Petrarca
#33. And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.
Eudora Welty
#34. What matters is not your outward appearance ... but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.
Saint Peter
#35. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
#36. There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.
Paul Bourget
#37. Who said, 'All Time's delight
Hath she for narrow bed;
Life's troubled bubble broken'?
That's what I said.
Walter De La Mare
#38. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#39. Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.
Dee Dee Artner
#40. You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
Sergei Parajanov
#41. Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
Jane Grigson
#42. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
Joyce Cary
#43. Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Novalis
#44. Simply put, to please God means to bring him delight by being and doing what he desires.
Robert D. Jones
#45. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee.
Anonymous
#47. There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#48. To understand the harvest of your soul against the background of seasonal rhythm should give you a sense of quiet delight at the arrival of this time in your life. It should give you strength and a sense of how the deeper belonging of your soul-world will be revealed to you.
John O'Donohue
#49. The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#50. They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius
#51. Remember, all passions start from love or hate. But beware - you never know whether they will end with delight or sorrow.
Jessica Shirvington
#53. Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
Alan Cohen
#54. This is a great time to shut up and kiss me.
To her delight, Blake obliged.
MaryJanice Davidson
#55. Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
Charles William Eliot
#56. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Robert Bly
#57. Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.
Robert Graves
#58. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter Raleigh
#59. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
Edmund Burke
#60. She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you."
He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.
Holly Black
#61. And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.
Mo Yan
#63. My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
Mark Leyner
#64. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Oswald Chambers
#65. It has ever been my delight to learn or to teach or to write.
Bede
#66. Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
John Cage
#67. What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Vincent McNabb
#68. Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
Demonax
#69. Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
Orson Welles
#70. Delight, Delight, Delight ... in our youth.
Eddie Vedder
#71. Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Daniel Boone
#72. Delight in your body, in your sensuality. Don't be ashamed of it.
Marty Rubin
#73. It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.
Friedrich Holderlin
#74. That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.
Donna Tartt
#75. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.
Evelyn Waugh
#76. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
G.K. Chesterton
#77. Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!
Dylan Moran
#78. he expects me to elaborate. Boundaries. These damn people need boundaries. "So no boyfriend, but you're not a virgin?" he prods, seeming to delight
C.M. Owens
#79. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2)But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
Anonymous
#80. 18 Let your o fountain be blessed, and s rejoice in t the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely u deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts v fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated [4] always in her love.
Anonymous
#81. Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Meister Eckhart
#82. I discovered to my relief and delight that it "was" a gun in his pocket.
Justin Richards
#83. When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
Guy Kawasaki
#84. Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
Jane Austen
#85. Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.
Tracy Rees
#86. I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.
Mary Russell Mitford
#87. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.
John Heilpern
#88. Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.
John Russell Napier
#89. First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
Denis Diderot
#90. To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence; - true poetry strikes at the soul.
Egerton Brydges
#91. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
Hosea Ballou
#92. Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.
Barbara Fredrickson
#93. How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.
Seneca.
#94. [On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
Diane Ackerman
#95. In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
Charles Dickens
#96. Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. With secret delight, he began teaching Bad Eye catastrophically bad English. From that day forward, when asked, "How are you?," Bad Eye would smilingly reply, "What the fuck do you care?
Laura Hillenbrand
#99. True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
Emanuel Geibel
#100. a management practice is a good practice when: It engages people and their interactions; It enables them to improve the system; It helps to delight all clients.
Jurgen Appelo
