Delight Quotes
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
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.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.
I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.
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.
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.
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.
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.
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.