Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. — Isaac D'Israeli
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something… — Caroline Knapp
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. — Gerald Durrell
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace — Bernard Hinault
What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only… — James Sheridan Knowles
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely… — Saint Francis de Sales
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools... — Claude McKay
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison… — Vivian Gornick
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked. — Unknown Author
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you. — Steven Strogatz
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us… — Rodney Brooks
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities… — Richardson Wright
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to… — John Milton
We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight. — George Linley
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived… — Celia Thaxter
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… — Alexander Pope
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure,… — George Dantzig
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting. — Charles Dudley Warner

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