The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
~By Richard Barnfield ~
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 ~
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~By John C. Crosby ~
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 ~
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 ~
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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 ~
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
~By Robert Iger ~
So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.
~By Andreas Katsulas ~
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~By Robert Frost ~
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
~By William Bartram ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
~By Cole Porter ~
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 ~
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 ~
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
~By Charles Simmons ~
It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
~By Richard Russo ~
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 ~
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
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 ~
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 ~
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
~By Paul Claudel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
~By Toni Morrison ~
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
~By Edmund Spenser ~
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 ~
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 ~
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
~By Franz Kafka ~
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 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 ~
I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
~By Ava Gardner ~
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
~By Charles Dickens ~
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
~By Sissela Bok ~
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
~By Billy Connolly ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~By Mencius ~
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
~By Lucretius ~
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 ~
And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.
~By Lord Robertson ~
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
~By Lao Tzu ~
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 ~
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
~By Henri Matisse ~
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
~By Georg Brandes ~
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
~By Michelangelo ~
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.
~By Judy Collins ~
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 ~
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
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 ~
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~By Stuart Chase ~
I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
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 ~
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 ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
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 ~
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
~By Francois de Malherbe ~
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
~By Daniel Boone ~
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
~By William Blake ~
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
~By Anna Neagle ~
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 ~
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
~By David Walliams ~
Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
~By Richard Branson ~
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~By Herodotus ~
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
~By Ben Jonson ~
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
~By Anita Loos ~
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 ~
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 ~
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