Quotes and Sayings About Delight
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
-- Agnes Repplier -
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
-- Agnes Repplier -
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
-- Alan Cohen -
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
-- Alcibiades -
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
-- Alexander Pope -
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
-- Alexander Pope -
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
-- Alexander Pope -
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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.
-- Amartya Sen -
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
-- Andre Breton -
... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ... Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.
-- Angela of Foligno -
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
-- Anne Bronte -
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
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!
-- Anthony de Mello -
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
-- Aristotle -
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
-- Aristotle -
'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight...
-- Arthur Cleveland Coxe -
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-- Barbara De Angelis
