Delight Quotes
-
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
-
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
-
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
-
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
-
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
-
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
-
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
-
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.
-
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
-
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.
-
Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.
-
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
-
By turns the nine delight to sing.
-
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.
-
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
-
If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
-
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
-
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
-
He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.
-
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
-
If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
