Delight Quotes
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T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight! (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies-- Bade me gather her blue roses.Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.Home I came at wintertide, But my silly love had died Seeking with her latest breath Roses from the arms of Death. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. (Quote by - John Lubbock)
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. (Quote by - John Gay)
I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
I was delighted to get the first win, (Quote by - Brian Horton)
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. (Quote by - Lorraine Anderson)
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. (Quote by - Emmanuel)
I was honored and delighted by his support and the support of his wife, (Quote by - Chris Kelly)
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I am delighted to be recognized and honored by InformationWeek Magazine, (Quote by - Clarence White)
I'm just delighted for Alan. The goal will give him a huge injection of confidence. (Quote by - Dave Jones)
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight (Quote by - John Ruskin)
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him. (Quote by - Margaret Drabble)
Danger and delight grow on one stalk. (Quote by - English proverb)
We are delighted that Keith has joined our team. (Quote by - Brian Kelley)
Had other aims than my delight. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
Personally, I think that's ludicrous. But as a shareholder, I would be delighted. (Quote by - Whitney Tilson)
It was the best we have played since I took over. I am delighted. (Quote by - Danny Kerry)
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight (Quote by - William Safire)
A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight. (Quote by - Old Weather Rhyme)
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. (Quote by - Socrates)
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. (Quote by - Nora Roberts)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
We are absolutely delighted to have you here, (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible, (Quote by - Catriona Matthew)
I'm delighted to finally win. I just tried to be aggressive - I knew the other guys wouldn't back down. (Quote by - David Howell)
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
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 not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness. (Quote by - Jonathan Edwards)
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. (Quote by - William Blake)
To see your child through the Eyes of Delight is the greatest gift in the world you can give to your child and to yourself. (Quote by - John Breeding)
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment (Quote by - Christine Downing)
I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment, (Quote by - Rafael Nadal)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? (Quote by - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy)
We're delighted to be working with Devon County Council in what we're sure will be the start of a beneficial partnership. (Quote by - David Hurley)
God created me to delight people with my goals. (Quote by - Romario)
Energy is eternal delight. (Quote by - William Blake)
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. (Quote by - Boris Pasternak)
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. (Quote by - George Henry Lewes)
The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. (Quote by - Daniel Dennett)
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. (Quote by - John Gay)
I am delighted that we have been able to give our backing to (this) amendment. (Quote by - Andy Burnham)
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. (Quote by - Richard Russo)
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not. (Quote by - Henry Alford)
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. (Quote by - John Locke)
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight. (Quote by - Gordon Lindsay)
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life (Quote by - William Blake)
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it. (Quote by - John Paul Jones)
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. (Quote by - John Denham)
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying. (Quote by - E. M. Bounds)
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. (Quote by - William Blake)
In this fool's paradise, he drank delight (Quote by - George Grabbe)
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. (Quote by - J B Priestley)
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. (Quote by - Margaret Cavendish)
Men whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
The advantages of a losing team: (1) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear, (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day, "What was the score?"; people take it for granted that you lost. (Quote by - Elmer E. Bates)
Intelligence is nothing without delight. (Quote by - Paul Claudel)
We are naturally delighted to have signed Jeff to a new contract, (Quote by - Craig Cameron)
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. (Quote by - Mencius)
I am delighted that, after lengthy negotiations, Luis has signed an extension, (Quote by - Chris Coleman)
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him? (Quote by - Sherwood Anderson)
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly. (Quote by - Charles Keating)
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight. (Quote by - E. M. Bounds)
Don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown! (Quote by - Thomas Dunn)
We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun! (Quote by - David Holland)
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterwards deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life-its wonderful surprises. (Quote by - Mario Thomas)
I'm just so delighted we've managed this. (Quote by - Alex McLeish)
We're delighted that the FDA has moved forward at all. (Quote by - Cynthia Harriman)
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. (Quote by - Venerable Bede)
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. (Quote by - Joseph Brodsky)
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight. (Quote by - Helen Dunmore)
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. (Quote by - Minoru Yamasaki)
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. (Quote by - Bible)
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. (Quote by - Helen Dunmore)
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 my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I am actually quite surprised and delighted to hear how loyal I am, (Quote by - Chris Tarrant)
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. (Quote by - ublilius Syrus)
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I was absolutely delighted with the result, (Quote by - Allan Moore)
It's simply delightful. The comedians are outstanding. (Quote by - Theresa McManaman)
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
We're delighted, it's unbelievable. (Quote by - Chris Nelson)
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide (Quote by - Daniel C. Gelman)
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. (Quote by - Joseph Priestley)
We're delighted to be able to take on title sponsorship. It's a natural fit for us. (Quote by - Cathy Cole)
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, esson, or delight that moment has to (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)
My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight (Quote by - Catullus)
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. (Quote by - George Santayana)
And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle. (Quote by - Virgil)
He wants to stay and I couldn't be more delighted. (Quote by - Rick Parry)
A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Joy delights in Joy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
