Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat… — Mencius
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 and eternal. — Julia Child
Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life… — Paulo Coelho
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you… — Robert Frost
Intelligence is nothing without delight. — Paul Claudel
There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live… — Stephane Mallarme
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. — Francis of Assisi
Often a retrospect delights the mind. — Dante Alighieri
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? — Edmund Spenser
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at… — Adrienne Rich
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish
The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that. — Hafez
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
While understanding the 'what' and the 'how' of the gospel is necessary, the eternal fire and majesty of the gospel springs from the 'why.' When… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in… — James Nayler
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. — C.S. Lewis
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other… — C.S. Lewis
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the… — Okakura Kakuzo
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they… — Thomas Love Peacock
We are whirling through endless space, with and inconceivable speed, all around everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be… — Nikola Tesla
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a… — Linda Ronstadt
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey

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