Delight Quotes

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.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

There is no delight the equal of dread

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.