Delight Quotes

Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

God delights to disappoint man's fears.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.

Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.

The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read!

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?