Delight Quotes

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

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.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

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

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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