Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light,… — Unknown Author
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts… — William Cowper
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. — Thomas Browne
Women do most delight in revenge. — Thomas Browne
By turns the nine delight to sing — Homer
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find… — Ignatius Loyola
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. — Rajneesh
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this… — Rabia Basri
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important… — Hazel Hawke
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin
A man of wisdom delights in water. — Confucius
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all… — William Shakespeare
One writes to teach, to move or to delight. — Unknown Author
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be -… — Emanuel Lasker
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this:… — Walker Evans
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue. — Joseph Addison
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. — Joseph Addison
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. — Rudyard Kipling

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