Delight Quotes

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

I delight in what I fear.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

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.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

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.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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.