Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. — Roald Dahl
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight. — William Wordsworth
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? — Edward Abbey
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. — Edward Abbey
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're… — Zadie Smith
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. — Robert E. Sherwood
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. — James Boswell
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that… — Katherine Dunham
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful… — Doris Humphrey
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in… — Morrie Schwartz
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. — Emily Bronte
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -… — Siegbert Tarrasch
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him — Charles Hodge
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them,… — Holly Lisle
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a… — Rabindranath Tagore
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called… — Richard Baxter
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but… — Samuel Rutherford
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision,… — Anthony Hecht
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises. — Marlo Thomas

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