Quotes of: Delight Keyword

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

Pietro Aretino

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Sydney Smith

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Anita Loos

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

Buffalo Bill

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Amos Bronson Alcott

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.

Debasish Mridha

I am afloat on a sea of foaming joy and delight.

J.P. Martin

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Julian Fellowes

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

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Anthony Holden

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Alcibiades

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

William Safire

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Revelation

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Nicholas Nickleby

The mind, at times, takes masochistic delight in suffering.

Seduced by Murder