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Quotes About Delight

Reverend Brown Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit.
~ Unknown
luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.
~ Conn Iggulden
In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.
~ Unknown
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.
~ Craig Claiborne
No small amount of schadenfreude. Do you know what that means?" "Dad, it's the lifeline of gossip. Of course I know what it means.
~ Cristina García
The Quantum Age takes us far beyond the Information Age to a way of living in which we delight in uncertainty, thrive in entanglement, and flourish with an awareness of many possibilities.
~ Unknown
It is wonderful to be happy, but to know you are happy is absolute bliss.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Have you ever noticed how a very small thing can give you an enormous amount of pleasure? You don't know why it should; but it just—just makes you happy.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Chocolate is maybe my only vice. In particular, Godiva's champagne truffles. Or Dean & Deluca vanilla cupcakes. Just thinking about them - oh my gosh!
~ Shilpa Shetty
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
~ Ben Jonson
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.
~ Satoru Iwata
Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?
~ Lisa Kleypas
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Music is the universal language of mankind -- poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft charms, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes.
~ Unknown
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
~ Lord Byron
What else can joy be, but the spreading joy?
~ Lord Byron
Happy sneaked out of the room and joined merriment down the hall.
~ Lorene Cary
Everything's better with chocolate.
~ Jill Shalvis
Okay, so maybe chocolate doesn't make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip worthwhile.
~ Jill Shalvis
Chocolate is good for three things. Two of them can't be mentioned in polite company.
~ Jill Shalvis
No matter how much you eat, there's always room for dessert. Dessert doesn't go to the stomach, dessert goes to the heart.
~ Jill Shalvis
Sweet baby Jesus
~ Jill Shalvis
Holy cheese toast
~ Jill Shalvis