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Quotes About Delight

I love apple crumble and custard - that's my little treat.
~ Jimi Manuwa
Children are cute no matter whose they are.
~ Kenneth Cole
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.
~ Diane Ackerman
I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation." —C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms6
~ Richard J. Foster
Grant me, Lord, to know what I ought to know, to love what I ought to love, to praise what delights you most, to value what is precious in your sight, and to hate what is offensive to you. Amen. —Thomas à Kempis
~ Richard J. Foster
Lord, as you awaken us to delight in your praise, grant that we may know you, call on you, and praise you; for you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you. Amen. —St. Augustine
~ Richard J. Foster
It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.
~ Richard Paul Evans
All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.
~ Richard Paul Evans
God often delights to take advantage of our averseness, that he may manifest his work the more clearly, and that all the glory of the work may be his, as all the strength is his.
~ Richard Sibbes
Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.
~ Richelle Mead
Sunshine had never tasted so sweet as it did at that moment.
~ Richelle Mead
Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.
~ Richelle Mead
It made you happy...
~ Richelle Mead
He smiled, and it lit up his whole face.
~ Richelle Mead
EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND
~ Roald Dahl
This morning from a halibut.
~ Roald Dahl
A REAL WITCH gets the same pleasure from squelching a child as you get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream.
~ Roald Dahl
hippodumplings
~ Roald Dahl
MAGIC HAND-FUDGE—WHEN YOU HOLD IT IN YOUR HAND, YOU TASTE IT IN YOUR MOUTH.
~ Roald Dahl
Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~ Roald Dahl
Britain's contribution includes Bantock's choral ballet The Great God Pan (1920) and Pagan Symphony (completed 1927), both painting fantastical sound pictures of frisky nymphs and satyrs, and brimming with the energy of eternal delight.
~ Rob Young
Belle was not only a perfect secretary and office manager, she also had personal specs which would have delighted Praxiteles and a fragrance which affected me the way catnip does Pete.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
In our maturer years, when an object of vision is presented to us which bears any similitude to the form of the female bosom . . .we feel a general glow of delight which seems to influence all of our senses . . .
~ Robert Anton Wilson
This thing is going down so good there's not enough O's in smooth.
~ Robert B. Parker