The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
~By William C. Bryant ~
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.
~By Theodore Robinson ~
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
~By Daniel Boone ~
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
~By Francois Mitterrand ~
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
~By Al Lopez ~
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 ~
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
~By Sydney Smith ~
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
~By Ben Jonson ~
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
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 ~
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
~By David Walliams ~
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
~By Gerald Massey ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
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 ~
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
~By Herman Melville ~
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
~By John Barrymore ~
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
~By Robert Hall ~
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
~By John Pople ~
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 ~
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.
~By Venerable Bede ~
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
~By Mary Astell ~
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
~By Franz Kafka ~
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
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 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 ~
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~By William Blake ~
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
~By Alexander Smith ~
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~By Anthony de Mello ~
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
~By Dick Gregory ~
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
~By Billy Connolly ~
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
~By Anthony Holden ~
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
~By George Carey ~
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 ~
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~By Robert Frost ~
If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.
~By Henry Fox ~
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
~By Alan Parsons ~
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
~By John H. Speke ~
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 ~
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
~By Richard Rolle ~
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
~By George MacDonald ~
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 ~
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
~By William Safire ~
He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
~By Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah ~
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
~By Cole Porter ~
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
~By William Blake ~
I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
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 ~
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
~By Ovid ~
I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
~By Patrick Macnee ~
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
~By Richard Barnfield ~
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
~By Neal Barnard ~
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 ~
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 ~
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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.
~By Norman McLaren ~
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.
~By Peter Asher ~
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
~By Milan Kundera ~
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
~By David Selby ~
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
~By James Boswell ~
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 ~
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
~By Anna Neagle ~
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
~By Robert Bridges ~
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
~By Minna Antrim ~
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 ~
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~By Rose Kennedy ~
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
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