Delight Quotes
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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
Catullus
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
John Milton
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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?
William Shakespeare
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
Rumi
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The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
Egerton Brydges
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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.
Richard Feynman
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo
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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.
Celia Thaxter
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
Lois McMaster
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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
Confucius
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
John Milton
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Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.
David Rodigan
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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.
John Bevere
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If, for you, orthodox means finally “getting it right” or “getting it straight,” mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn’t a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means “thinking” or “opinion,” then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.
Brian D. McLaren
