Delight Quotes

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

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

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

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.

'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.

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

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.