Delight Quotes
-
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
-
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
-
Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
-
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.
-
You have delighted us long enough.
-
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
-
Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
-
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.
-
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
-
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
-
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
-
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
-
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.
-
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
-
A lonely impulse of delight
-
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
-
Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
-
Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
-
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!”
-
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.
-
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.
-
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
-
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
-
If you choose to go hard after God, you’ll experience more adversity than you would encounter if you played it safe, but you’ll delight in more power and love than you ever dreamed possible.
