Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it… — Enid Blyton
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer… — Samuel Eliot Morison
I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. — Georges Bataille
Delight in the little things. — Rudyard Kipling
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. — Thomas Traherne
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with… — Fernand Point
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. — Saint Augustine
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of… — Pericles
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is… — Leonardo da Vinci
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and… — Walter Dean Myers
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by… — Hippocrates
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss… — Alan Moore
It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them. — Philip Kotler
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun… — Nevada Barr
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other… — Joseph Addison
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… — Charles Dickens
I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and… — Ralph Gibson
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,… — Henry David Thoreau
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. — Thomas Campion

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