Delight Quotes
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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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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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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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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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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
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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.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
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These violent delights have violent ends.
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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?
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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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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.
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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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We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
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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!”
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Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
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Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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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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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
