Delight Quotes - page 4

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. (Patañjali)
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. View quote
Christina Rossetti
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. View quote
George Santayana
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination. View quote
Paul Claudel
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell me a story of deep delight. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight. View quote
Philip Sidney
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. View quote
William Cowper
A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies And turns delight into a sacrifice. View quote
George Herbert
To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged is a man's delight to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's. (Anthony Trollope)
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. View quote
John Gay
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. View quote
Bertrand Russell
And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever. View quote
Charles Kingsley
The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates. View quote
Colin Wilson
It was a great achievement of the early chemists - with the crude experimental techniques available also with the ever-astonishing power of human reason (as potent then as now) - to discover this reduction of the world to its components, the chemical elements. Such reduction does not destroy its charm but adds understanding to sensation, and this understanding only deepens our delight. View quote
Peter Atkins
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art. View quote
Kenneth Clark
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded. (Francis Bacon)
Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. View quote
John Muir
All sanity depends on this that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. View quote
Doris Lessing
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful. View quote
Daniel Defoe