Delight Quotes

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.

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

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

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.

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.

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

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.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

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.

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.

I delight in what I fear.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.