Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that… — John Bunyan
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality. — St. Catherine of Siena
The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions… — H. L. Mencken
Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight. — Unknown Author
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without… — Martin Luther
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of… — William Wordsworth
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I… — Bernadette Soubirous
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. — Robert Bridges
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about… — Densey Clyne
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,… — Charles Baudelaire
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight. — William Shakespeare
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… — Edith Hamilton
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight — Hugh Massingberd
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There… — Laura Nyro

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