Delight Quotes
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To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.
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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
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Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
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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!
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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.
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The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset’s gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.
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I want to bring an element of delight and magic that will knit together the Sprint Arena and the Power and Light District.
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
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So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. "You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name?
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Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
