Delight Quotes - page 2

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. (Nora Roberts)
I delight in what I fear. View quote
Shirley Jackson
To work -- to work It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Never find your delight in another's misfortune. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Energy is eternal delight. View quote
William Blake
The soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd. View quote
William Blake
The Moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. View quote
William Blake
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. (William Wordsworth)
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. View quote
William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
William Wordsworth
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one. View quote
Vitruvius
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. View quote
Isaac Watts
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. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. View quote
Robert Bridges
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. (Chogyam Trungpa)
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. View quote
Carol P. Christ
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. View quote
Venerable Bede
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. View quote
Venerable Bede
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light. View quote
Edmund Waller