Delight Quotes · Page 83

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

— Bernard Hinault

American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology…

— Greg Gutfeld

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building…

— Anonymous

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight…

— Jim Butcher

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

— Rumi

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore…

— John Milton

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those…

— Jonathan Edwards

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had…

— Charles de Lint

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

— Delhi Ganesh

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

— Sri Aurobindo

The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies.…

— Gorgias

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one…

— Walter Raleigh

I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents…

— Walker Evans

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at…

— Abelardo Morell

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

— Holly Black

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying…

— Julia Child

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their…

— Gerry Spence

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand…

— William Shakespeare

The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that…

— Diane Duane

A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

— Alexis Lichine