Delight Quotes

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.

— Rodolphus Agricola

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

— Alexander Pope

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

— Mason Cooley

Don't lose sight of user delight.

— Mark Pincus

“The delight of the spirit leads to life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Had other aims than my delight.

— Thomas Hardy

“End of the world delight”

— Kurt Vonnegut

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

— Frances Ridley Havergal

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

— Jules Verne

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

— Alan Cohen

“To delight in God is to desire Jesus Christ.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“O happy wound, full of delight, He whom You wound Is joyous indeed.”

— Jacopone da Todi

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

— Socrates

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

— George MacDonald

“Delight in the Lord, He shall give you the desires of your heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has…

— John Masefield

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

— Robert E. Sherwood

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if…

— Louis Pullig De Gouy

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

— Thomas Traherne

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

— David Brainerd

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the…

— Rumi

“Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the…

— Andrew M. Greeley

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the…

— John Armstrong

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and…

— Eliphas Levi

Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of…

— Margaret Mead

For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra…

— Isaac Babel

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the…

— Anonymous

I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to…

— Marilynne Robinson

For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He…

— Keri Arthur

A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with…

— Anonymous

Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we…

— Timothy Keller

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can…

— David F. Wells

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts…

— Rajneesh

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

— Neil Gaiman

Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an…

— Erwin Schrodinger

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order…

— Charles Darwin

Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord…

— David

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of…

— Erwin Schrodinger