Delight Quotes - Page 12

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

... me He now delights to spare.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.

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.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.