Delights Quotes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.