Delight Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.