Delight Quotes

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

John Denham

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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

John Polanyi

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My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Robert Bridges

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I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

Michael Palin

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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Dick Gregory

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The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

Philip Pullman

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Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

Richard Rolle

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I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

Jan Hus

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If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

Greg Boyle

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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Margaret Cavendish

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon

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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

Maeve Binchy

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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Daniel Boone

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

John Gay

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Roald Dahl

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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.

Minoru Yamasaki

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Working with Kajol was a delight, as we complemented each other. She is a seasoned actor, and there is so much to learn from her.

Dhanush

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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Sydney Smith

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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.

Richard Russo

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I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

James Patterson

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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.

Gerald Massey

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