Delight Quotes
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.
Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
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.
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.
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.
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?'
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
