Delight Quotes
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Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
Charles Sprague Sargent -
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.
Socrates
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Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.
Russell M. Nelson -
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
Emily Bronte -
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
J. C. Ryle -
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment.
Jack Gilbert -
The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
Eliza Haywood -
I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.
M. C. Escher
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus -
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.
Anne Carson -
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel -
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve -
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
William Butler Yeats -
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Stanley Hauerwas
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Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
David Jeremiah -
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 -
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Vincent McNabb -
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa Cather -
Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
William Cowper -
The delight you feel in that split second you score your first hundred is so intense it can't be repeated.
Alastair Cook
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If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
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 -
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
William Butler Yeats -
What sweet delight a quiet life affords.
William Drummond