Delight Quotes - Page 21

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

To teach is to delight.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.