Delight Quotes

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge, Wisdom, Words

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
Gerald Massey

Life, Smile, Joy

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana

Positive, War, Soldier

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Charles Baudelaire

Love, Women, Men

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana

Deep, Down, Blood

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius

Heart, Bitterness, Flowers

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Steve Martin

Funny, Good, Fun

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Friendship, Great

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Mason Cooley

Dead, Mighty, Critic

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

Pain, Born, Gentle

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.
John Locke

Love, Him, Thought

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert

Pain, Mind, Brings

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve

Love, Heart, Others

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

Great, Truth, Fear

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle

Words, Head, Written

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

War, Game, Lawyer

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville

Wise, Give, Strange

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Ernest Holmes

God, Universe, Exist

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

Unless, Refuge, Flees

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller

Food, Revenge, End

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

Cannot, Ourselves, Delivered

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Love, Feeling, Give

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay

Love, Brave, Cruel

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Good, Book, Profit

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir Nabokov

Life, Enjoy, Immature

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera

Fear, Humility, Together

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse

Past, Old, Growing

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman

Love, Education, True

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory

Loss, Riches, Possession

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson

Thinking, Down, Takes

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