Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something… — Dorothy Draper
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. — Aristotle
When the character's right, looks are a greater delight. — Ovid
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill,… — Margaret Mead
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in… — James Fallows
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures… — Thomas Campion
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies… — John Hollander
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it. — Seneca the Younger
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no… — Seneca the Younger
To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter. — Laozi
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid… — Tacitus
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. — William Shakespeare
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied… — Samuel Johnson
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! — Robert Browning
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. — Roald Dahl
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one… — Dorothy Day
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,… — Karel Capek
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. — Vincent McNabb

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