Delight Quotes
1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors
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The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's…
— Meher Baba
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I…
— Richard Aldington
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There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed…
— Kenny Smith
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Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases…
— John Podhoretz
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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose…
— Robert Frost
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it…
— Agnes Repplier
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We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no…
— Leigh Hunt
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God created me to delight people with my goals.
— Romario
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart…
— John Bunyan
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Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people.…
— John Simm
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His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as…
— Jonathan Maberry
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That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.
— Muriel Barbery
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
— Novalis
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Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?
— Pietro Aretino
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A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting…
— Rebecca Wells
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Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a…
— Rajneesh
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
— Alison Bechdel
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
— Andre Breton
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects…
— Eliphas Levi
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SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no…
— Reiko Chiba
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For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at…
— Sun Tzu
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