Delight Quotes
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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.
Minoru Yamasaki
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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
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Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
Rumi
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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.
Alastair Cook
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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.
Scott Wilson
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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.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
Carl Nielsen
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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.
William Blake
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
John Milton
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By turns the nine delight to sing.
Homer
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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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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
Jane Austen
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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.
Seth Godin
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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.
George Armitage Miller
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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
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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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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade
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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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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
Gerald Durrell
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Virginia Woolf
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
Emily Bronte