Delights Quotes
350 Delights quotes by 269 unique authors
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Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to…
— Kevin DeYoung
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To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his…
— Laozi
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For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one…
— Mark Twain
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It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to…
— Mary Roach
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Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors…
— Maryrose Wood
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The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are…
— Richard Dawkins
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What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber?…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to…
— Truman Capote
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books…
— C.S. Lewis
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Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
— Charlotte Mason
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A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh…
— Daphne Oz
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
— Ephrem the Syrian
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared…
— H. Rider Haggard
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You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal…
— Maureen Johnson
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Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge…
— Milan Kundera
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To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
— Nicole Brossard
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A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he…
— Oswald Chambers
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Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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