Quotes of: Delight Keyword

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

Toni Morrison

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

Alexander Pope

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

William Blake

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Murray Gell-Mann

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

For these reasons they should not hesitate to exchange peace for war. If wise men remain quiet, while they are not injured, brave men abandon peace for war when they are injured, returning to an understanding on a favourable opportunity: in fact, the...

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, don’t make them your steady intellectual diet, any more ...

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

Carre Otis

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

Anne of Green Gables

i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.

The Prince of Tides

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

The Red Fairy Book

I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored.

Saul Perlmutter

Delight yourself in the Lord. He shall give you all the desires of your heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Maeve Binchy

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Friedrich Schiller

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.

Gertrude Jekyll

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Philip Pullman