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Quotes About Delight

This is from me. For all the thousands of bad guys in your life." She gave a meaningful look to Ezra. Then she smugly held up a case. Montgomery popped the catches and opened the top. Oh, my gosh," she said. Inside was a single piece of sharpened wood. MR POINTY!" she screamed in delight. You gave Buffy's weapon...her stake...to the cheerleader ," David said with a whistle. "Sheer genius.
~ Unknown
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
~ Truman Capote
Mangoes everyday!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Moon!" he sang happily as he saw her approaching. "Moon moon moon mooooon pies.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I'd rather have pie," Kinkajou said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Friend!" Qibli cried with delight. "You called me your friend! You DO adore me! Life goals: accomplished." "I'm just saving syllables," Winter snapped. "'Friend' is faster to say than 'annoying clawmate.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.
~ Patrick O'Brian
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
~ Patrick O'Brian
Once removed from cricket, Martin became a reasonable companion again, and they took particular delight in the whinchats and wheatears on Ports Down and in a middle-spotted woodpecker eating ants like its great green cousin, which neither had seen before; but once they were in the town the future husband tended to predominate.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Why the wild rushing delight? Why the bullocks? Far be it from me to offer an explanation ("In general those who try to explain pictures are entirely wrong," said Picasso to Juan Larrea) but I will mention a circumstance that may have some bearing on their presence: in mountain country the cattle usually stay out on the high pastures for the summer, and when the right season comes they are brought down, often with rejoicing and sometimes with wreaths of flowers about their horns.
~ Patrick O'Brian
A little Toffee Crunch
~ Unknown
his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
~ Paul Bowles
L'ordre est le plaisir de la raison; mais le désordre est le délice de l'imagination
~ Paul Claudel
Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.
~ Paul Claudel
but three emotions are so often intertwined with deceit as to merit separate explanation: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, and delight in having duped someone.
~ Paul Ekman
Why not scientific humanism? "It's not good enough." Why isn't it? "This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and have to answer, 'Scientific humanism.' That won't do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less.
~ Unknown
An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.
~ Paul Theroux
When things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable.
~ Paulo Coelho
He laughed because he was free.
~ Pearl S. Buck
May we all learn that pain is not the end of the journey, and neither is delight. We can hold them both—indeed hold it all—at the same time, remembering that everything in these quixotic, unpredictable, unsettled and unsettling, exhilarating and heart-stirring times is a doorway to awakening in sacred world.
~ Pema Chodron
The purpose of art is delectation.
~ Nicolas Poussin
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
~ Henry Wotton
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
~ William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
~ Ouida