Delight Quotes

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.