Quotes About Delight

"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

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.

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)

You're so pretty as the apple blooms again for joy that you give. (Tu es si jolie que la pomme - Refleurit pour joie que tu donnes.)

There might be some credit in being jolly.

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

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one another when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature's head. Altogether she was what you would have called provoking, you know; but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory.

There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last!

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess.

I think I know the delights of freedom

Mrs. Sliderskew was in an ecstasy of delight, rolling her head about, drawing up her skinny shoulders, and wrinkling her cadaverous face into so many and such complicated forms of ugliness, as awakened the unbounded astonishment and disgust even of Mr. Squeers.

the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.

She is the prettiest and most engaging little fairy in the world.

Take your pleasure seriously.

God calls you to delight in Him because nothing will satisfy your soul like being close to Him in intimate fellowship.

...a ball of Ice Cream gooed with Chocolate and enveloped with Salted Nuts...

Ice cream is happiness on a cone, with sprinkles.

a mint sky with chocolate chip stars

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.