Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
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.
I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.
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.
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
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.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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.
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.
