Delights Quotes
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
Samuel Rutherford
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Richard Barnfield
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare