Delight Quotes
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O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!
Nicodemus -
What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.
Stephen Spender
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What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
William Drummond -
The delight you feel in that split second you score your first hundred is so intense it can't be repeated.
Alastair Cook -
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.
John Locke Nazareth -
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost -
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
Washington Allston -
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
William Hazlitt
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A lonely impulse of delight
William Butler Yeats -
O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Lord Byron -
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
William Shakespeare -
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
William Blake -
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?
Gerard De Nerval
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You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen -
I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
C. S. Lewis -
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 -
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
Carl Nielsen -
These violent delights have violent ends.
William Shakespeare
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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
Seneca the Younger -
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.
George Armitage Miller -
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
John Milton