If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
~By William Congreve ~
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
~By Barbara Schapiro ~
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 ~
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~By Mencius ~
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.
~By Judy Collins ~
When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
~By Harry Shearer ~
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 ~
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
~By William Safire ~
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 ~
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 ~
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
~By John Masefield ~
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~By Helen Keller ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~By Aristotle ~
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
~By Anna Neagle ~
We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.
~By Paula Zahn ~
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 ~
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
~By Carl Sagan ~
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
~By Alan Cohen ~
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
~By Joseph Butler ~
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 ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.
~By David Brainerd ~
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
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 ~
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
~By John Gay ~
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
~By Richard Rolle ~
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
~By Henry Alford ~
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 ~
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 ~
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
~By Anthony Holden ~
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
~By Edmund Spenser ~
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 ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
~By Patrick Gordon ~
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
~By Minna Antrim ~
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
~By Franz Kafka ~
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
~By Henry Wotton ~
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
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 ~
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 ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
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 ~
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 ~
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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 ~
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 ~
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
~By John Barrymore ~
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 ~
He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
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 ~
I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.
~By Kenny Dalglish ~
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~By Francis Bacon ~
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
~By Robert Bridges ~
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
~By David Walliams ~
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 ~
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
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 ~
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'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
~By Richard Russo ~
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 ~
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
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 ~
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