Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment,… — Susan Hill
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. — Oprah Winfrey
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative… — Sylvia Plath
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a… — Charles Baudelaire
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Unknown Author
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to… — Robert Downey, Jr.
Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the… — Jeremy Clarkson
Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink… — Oscar de la Renta
When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products:… — Adam Carolla
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them….Ill fares the race which fails… — Winston Churchill
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years… — Amina Mama
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22 — Deborah Smith
If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world.... I… — Anna Kournikova
I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that… — Douglas Gresham
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth,… — Carol P. Christ
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will… — William James
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. — William Shakespeare
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to… — Charles Baudelaire
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away… — Violet Fane
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in… — Melissa Etheridge
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts

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