Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create… — Laura Ramirez
Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. — Henry Wotton
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. — Philip Pullman
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well… — William Shakespeare
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the… — William Lyon Phelps
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight… — Joanna Newsom
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. — Michael Chabon
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes,… — William Hazlitt
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:… — Henry Wotton
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others — Edmund Burke
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are… — Giambattista Bodoni
Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating… — Dorothy Draper
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is… — Charles Dickens
I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty… — Karl Popper
Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel… — Rajneesh
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years,… — Emanuel Lasker
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as… — Swami Vivekananda
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can… — Mark Twain
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the… — Charles R. Swindoll
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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