Delight Quotes

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

I delight in what I fear.