Quotes on Delight

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Author: Daniel Boone

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Author: Michael Chabon

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

Author: Emile Cioran

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

Author: Austin Dobson

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.

Author: Paul Engle

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

Author: Dick Gregory

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Author: Ben Jonson

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

Author: Joseph Joubert

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

Author: Franz Kafka

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Author: Walter Landor

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

Author: Henri Matisse

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

Author: Norman McLaren

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Author: Mencius

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

Author: Michelangelo

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Author: Mary Retton

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

Author: Samuel Richardson

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

Author: Barbara Schapiro

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

Author: Joe Shuster

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

Author: Edmund Spenser

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Author: Henry Wotton

Quotes on Delight

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

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

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

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

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.

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

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

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

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

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

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

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

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

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

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

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.