Delight Quotes

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

Never find delight in another's misfortune.

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight.

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight.

A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers.

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

My kids are my salvation.... It's a delight to walk in and get charged by a five-year-old and a two-year-old. That'll make you forget the darkness.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.

A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.

That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.

Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.

Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.