Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of… — John Ruskin
There's no delight in owning anything unshared. — Seneca the Younger
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for… — Julian of Norwich
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their… — James Martineau
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. — Giacomo Casanova
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have… — Thomas Jefferson
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days. — John Milton
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so. — Isaac Watts
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and… — Theodore Dreiser
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight… — Michael Josephson
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of… — Sri Aurobindo
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. — Katrina Kenison
Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal. — Euripides
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it… — Morris Kline
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of… — Therese of Lisieux
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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