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Quotes About Delight

But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
~ Clarice Lispector
Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season
~ Clarice Lispector
Les beaux yeux qui ne demandent qu'à sourire !
~ Colette
[On an architectural design by Santiago Calatrava:] A city is never more fully human than when expertise—our own or someone else's—allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight.
~ Unknown
Chocolate is both an industry and a sensation.
~ Unknown
The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.
~ Herman Bavinck
What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event—the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.
~ Herman Melville
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
~ Heywood Broun
Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter." She goes to the freezer and removes a tub of mint chocolate chip. She brings that and two spoons back to the sofa. "For now, accept this delight, unworthy though it is for the Queen of Faerie in exile.
~ Holly Black
You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.
~ Holly Black
What do they do?" I ask. He laughs. "They are beautiful - isn't that enough?
~ Holly Black
lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here
~ Holly Black
I laugh again. Honestly, I don't know why I laughed so infrequently before. Everything is marvellous and ridiculous.
~ Holly Black
tonight let us remember our triumph, our trickery, and our delight in one another.
~ Holly Black
Someone poisoned the High King, and he is going to laugh and dance himself to death in front of a Court that will veer between delight and disgust. They will think him ridiculous as his heart stops.
~ Holly Black
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.
~ Unknown
That's what's important these days, isn't it. Everything should be fun and lighthearted.
~ Liane Moriarty
A child laughed; a long, gurgling giggle, like a stream of soap bubbles.
~ Liane Moriarty
Mummy!" Maddie toddled back into the kitchen, an expression of perplexed delight on her face. "Look!" She held up two copies of Good Night, Little Bear. Lyn said, "Fancy that!" and Maddie plunked down onto her bottom with both books in front of her, her head turning back and forth, as she flipped each page, intent on solving this mystery.
~ Liane Moriarty
The counselor wriggled with delight. Her name was Annie and she was a bubbly ball of spiritually advanced energy and positive new age vibes.
~ Liane Moriarty
Quincy, however, didn't seem ready to lose his new friend. He tucked his head under Ashley's arm, looked up with adoring eyes and licked her on her cheek and neck. His tail wagged so hard, its breeze gave Kristin goose bumps. "He likes me!" The delight in Ashley's voice was unmistakable as she hugged the big canine.
~ Unknown
feel on my tongue what I admire." Despite
~ Unknown
Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.
~ Unknown
The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
~ Lionel Shriver