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Quotes About Delight

My champagne is gone. Do you think you are, if you'll pardon the phrase, up for another transport of ecstasy?
~ Robert B. Parker
I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.
~ Robert Browning
I believe, whoever sees the Grail will find it agreeable. It charms all those of this land, they find it pleasant and agreeable; those who are able to remain with it and can bear its presence, when they see it they feel delight, they are as happy as a fish when a man holds it in his hand, and it can escape from his hand and return to swimming unconfined in the water.
~ Robert de Boron
Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the mind is intrigued by the triumph of ingenuity over scarcity - by the making of slight materials into a considerable matter. A man can do worse than to be poor. He can miss altogether the sight of the greatness of small things.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES No one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life- Not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~ Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~ Robert Frost
Over the page I went, shifting the bit of coal to a new position; and, as the scheme of the picture disengaged itself from out the medley of colour that met my delighted eyes, first there was a warm sense of familiarity, then a dawning recognition, and then — O then! along with blissful certainty came the imperious need to clasp my stomach with both hands, in order to repress the shout of rapture that struggled to escape — it was my own little city!
~ Kenneth Grahame
Hooray!' he cried, jumping up on seeing them, 'this is splendid!
~ Kenneth Grahame
Por las bragas de Campanita!
~ Kim Harrison
The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities.
~ Kim Harrison
Oh yeah. We were all having fun now.
~ Kim Harrison
An intense, peculiar exhalation of light and colour emanates from these fantasies of mine. I start with surprise as I note one good thing after another, and tell myself that this is the best thing I have ever read. My head swims with a sense of satisfaction; delight inflates me; I grow grandiose.
~ Knut Hamsun
Intet kan være bedre, med søtvarer til er det paradis.
~ Knut Hamsun
Selv de små rosenrøde finner i hendes ansigt satte ham i henrykkelse.
~ Knut Hamsun
Joules cackled with delight. And I've still got time to moon her. You think me arse'll show up on her infrared? The streetwise bruiser was back.
~ Kresley Cole
I informed him that when you eat one of those cuppy containers of flan, you are in heaven and smile for the rest of the day.
~ Kresley Cole
The person who calls himself a Christian, who says he loves God, yet does not seek his company and delight in it, can't be a true lover of God.
~ Kris Lundgaard
Sleep is not, with me, a mere switching off: it is a very positive pleasure to be supped and savoured with expertise. It was a good night; sleep pampered me like a familiar, salty mistress who yet always has a new delight with which to surprise her jaded lover.
~ Kyril Bonfiglioli
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
~ John Piper
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
~ Charles Hodge
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
~ Bertrand Russell
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
~ Lin Yutang
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
~ William Ellery Channing
You sh?uld eat ? waffle! Y?u ??n't b? sad ?f ??u eat ? waffle!
~ Lauren Myracle