Delight Quotes - Page 17

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.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight 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.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

War is delightful for those who don't know it