True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest,… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits… — Philipp Otto Runge Copy Share Image
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace — Bernard Hinault Copy Share Image
To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost. — James Beard Copy Share Image
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Your love makes my days happy and bright, Into my world you brought pure delight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
