Delight Quotes
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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.
Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.
Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.
God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.
Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
