Delight Quotes

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.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

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.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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.

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

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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.

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.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

She discovered 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.