Quotes About Delight

Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence woudl probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time.

pointed firs coming out against the pink sky- and that white orchard and the old Snow Queen. Isn't the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose- why, it's a song and a hope and a prayer all in one.

where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight

Marilla, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting, realized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest.

Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.

Anne was graciously pleased to accept it and rewarded the donor with a smile which exalted that infatuated youth straightway into the seventh heaven of delight and caused him to make such fearful errors in his dictation that Mr. Phillips kept him in after school to rewrite it.

And it was so nice to see her again and have a long talk over old times. Her sister Em was there, too, with such a delicious baby." "You talk as if it was something to eat," grunted Mrs. Gibson. "Babies are common enough." "Oh, no, babies are never common," said Anne, bringing a bowl of water for Mrs. Gibson's roses. "Every one is a miracle.

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them

Miss Cordelia thought she had never seen anybody so much like an incarnate smile before. Smiles of all kinds seemed literally to riot over his ruddy face and in and out of his eyes and around the corners of his mouth.

Truth is, I love Corn Dog on a Stick and Mrs. Field's Cookies.

She tasted like sunshine. And until this second I didn't know that sunshine tasted like anything.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

For chocolate's sake!

when you're so happy that you have to close your eyes when you smile so that your eyes don't jump out of your head

Know why I smile so much out there? It's because I'm having so much fun.

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

I want my clothes to make you smile!

No matter how old you are, simple things can still bring you smile

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

So a life builds up in layers, piecemeal, a kind of haphazard engineering that has elements of skill and cunning - the previous layers mostly hidden, as are the smaller mounds within, the clumps of different-coloured earth, the burnt offerings, the nodules of pain and the delight. The hard graft of the chopped-off antlers, picking and stabbing and scraping. The embers of old fires, old flames, in mute fragments of charcoal.