Quotes About Delight

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

There was only the promise for the moment, as exhilarating as the feeling of champagne fizzing and dancing on my tongue.

and an almond-scented blancmange custard that tasted like clouds.

Time seems to have been sweeping ahead very fast these last years. How many years I worried about you and also delighted in your company. And now it is time for me to give you away.

The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset's gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.

You hear the bird's gurgling? Which pleasure! which charm! The field has by me a thousand charms.

Rarely, rarely, comest thou,Spirit of Delight!

Thou art unseen—but yet I hear thy shrill delight.

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Friendship, a dear balm... A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight.

Like the ghost of a dear friend dead Is Time long past. A tone which is now forever fled, A hope which is now forever past, A love so sweet it could not last, Was Time long past. There were sweet dreams in the night Of Time long past: And, was it sadness or delight, Each day a shadow onward cast Which made us wish it yet might last - That Time long past

Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void for ever craves fresh food.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone.

The young man, who was the most respected of all his fatherís household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacobís daughter.

If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORDís eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:

I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”

And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.