Delight Quotes

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

— Eddie Vedder

What a delight it is to respect people!

— Anton Chekhov

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

— John Gay

Every change of place becomes a delight.

— Seneca the Younger

I delight in what I fear.

— Shirley Jackson

Energy is an eternal delight.

— William Blake

These violent delights have violent ends.

— Anonymous

“The world’s delight is a brief dream.”

— Francesco Petrarca

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

— Philippa Gregory

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.

— Max Anders

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes

“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.”

— George MacDonald

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

— Philip Sidney

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

— James Beard

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

— Dillon Burroughs

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

— John Milton

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

— Thomas Hardy

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

— C. S. Lewis

The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'

— Simon Doonan

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a…

— Edward Lear

Helming my own swimwear line, I know a thing or two about modeling, and of course, I delight in playing with dazzling…

— Dorit Kemsley

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to…

— Ronald Rolheiser

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before…

— John Winthrop

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to…

— Seneca the Younger

Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity - no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should…

— Min Kao

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's…

— John Hurt

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but…

— Dorothy Parker

Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for…

— Hanshan

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that…

— Richard Baxter

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…

— Alexander Pope

There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for…

— John Muir

“ . . .—we’d been there [at a restaurant] for hours, laughing over little things but being serious too, very grave, she…

— Donna Tartt

If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah,…

— Rodney Clapp

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first…

— Baltasar Gracian

Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams…

— Oswald Chambers