Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
~By Jane Austen ~
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
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.
~By Joe Shuster ~
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
~By Emmanuel Teney ~
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~By Stuart Chase ~
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
~By Socrates ~
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
~By Patrick Macnee ~
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
~By William Blake ~
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~By Aristotle ~
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
~By Alan Shepard ~
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
~By George Sand ~
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
~By John Drinkwater ~
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
~By David Brin ~
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
~By Georg Brandes ~
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
~By John Woolman ~
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
~By Joseph Priestley ~
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
~By Alan Cohen ~
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
~By Bram Stoker ~
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
~By Ovid ~
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
~By Lord Acton ~
I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
~By Ben Jonson ~
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~By Robert Frost ~
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
~By Frederick Locker-Lampson ~
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
~By Paul Claudel ~
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
~By James Beattie ~
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.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~By John C. Crosby ~
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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.
~By Venerable Bede ~
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.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.
~By Milton Bradley ~
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
~By Anna Pavlova ~
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
~By Hugh Miller ~
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
~By William Blake ~
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
~By Roald Dahl ~
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
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.
~By Austin Dobson ~
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
~By Henri Matisse ~
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.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.
~By Judy Collins ~
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.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
~By Frank Rich ~
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
~By Amos Oz ~
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
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.
~By John Paul Jones ~
When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
~By Jan de Bont ~
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
~By Walt Whitman ~
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
~By Minna Antrim ~
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
~By Nathaniel Smith ~
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
~By Joseph Addison ~
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
~By John H. Speke ~
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
~By Washington Irving ~
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
~By William Congreve ~
Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.
~By Russell Johnson ~
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.
~By Paul Engle ~
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
~By Kim Hunter ~
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
~By Richard Russo ~
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~By Herodotus ~
I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
~By Ron Glass ~
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
~By Edmund Spenser ~
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~By Robert Frost ~
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
~By Homer ~
I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
~By Samuel Pepys ~
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
~By Anthony Holden ~
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