Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. — Alice Walker
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Energy is an eternal delight. — William Blake
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those… — John Dryden
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility… — Stephanie Mills
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him… — Walter Raleigh
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He… — William Cowper
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! — Alexander Pope
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,… — Joseph Conrad
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. — Homer
Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you,… — Sara Teasdale
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,… — John Ruskin
I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they… — Oliver Sacks
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners... — Chogyam Trungpa
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. — Denis Diderot
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She… — Alice Meynell

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