Delight Quotes
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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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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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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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By turns the nine delight to sing.
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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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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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Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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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.
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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
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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.
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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
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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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Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.
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Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.
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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
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Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
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Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
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Tis the night – the night Of the grave’s delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they – it is they!
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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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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
