Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

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• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • President
  • Delight

• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • True
  • Christian
  • Masters

• I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Laughing
  • Satan

• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • inspirational
  • Delight

• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Expression
  • Delight
  • Spirituality

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wisdom
  • Delight
  • Poem

• God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Giving
  • Needs

• We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Long
  • Promise

• The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

  

  Epictetus
  • Experience
  • Pleasure
  • Delight

• 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
  • Men
  • Doe
  • Delight

• To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Consider
  • Delight
  • Kingdom

• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Business
  • Delight

• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

  

  William Blake
  • Soul
  • Delight
  • Defiled

• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  

  Petrarch
  • Books
  • Delight
  • Bones

• 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
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Mean

• 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
  • Wisdom
  • Delight
  • Refuse

• Take great delight in even the smallest of things.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Things
  • Take
  • Delight

• A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Sickness
  • Blindness
  • Unkind

• I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It's a biblical term, it's important, and it's embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Important
  • Love
  • Religion

• I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring with Revamp.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Tour
  • Revamp
  • Nightwish

• This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Greater
  • Complexity

• My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

  

  Catullus
  • Delight
  • Sparrows