Delights Quotes
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Richard Barnfield
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
Ashley Montagu
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving