Delights Quotes

350 quotes by 277 authors

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those… — Mary Astell
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we… — Saint Basil
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. — William Blake
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. — Minna Antrim
If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of… — John Gerard
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' — Simon Doonan
The delights of self-discovery are always available. — Gail Sheehy
Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming… — John F Walvoord
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson
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
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
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
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
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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