Delight Quotes

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.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

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

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

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

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.