Delight Quotes

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.

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

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

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.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

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.'

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

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