Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and… — Robert Frost
He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of… — Ibn Ata Allah
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and… — William Blake
To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it. — Confucius
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. — Katherine Mansfield
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind… — H. L. Mencken
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's… — Gottfried Leibniz
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour… — Washington Irving
My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the… — John Ruskin
Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me.… — Maya Angelou
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight… — Confucius
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as… — William Wordsworth
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to… — James Russell Lowell
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight. — Unknown Author
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes… — Mark Dvoretsky
Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh… — Gene Stratton-Porter
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers… — Sissela Bok
No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of… — John R. Rice
May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we… — Watchman Nee
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality. He takes no… — Watchman Nee
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when… — A B Simpson
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of… — Unknown Author
As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them… — Aelred of Rievaulx
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and… — Frank Barron

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