Delight Quotes

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.

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 afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

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.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

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.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

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.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.