Delight Quotes
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
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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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A lonely impulse of delight
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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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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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Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.
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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.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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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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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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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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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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To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
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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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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
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TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.