Delight Quotes
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The delight you feel in that split second you score your first hundred is so intense it can't be repeated.
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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.
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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.
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Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.
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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
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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.
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
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We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
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I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
