Quotes About Delight

a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

I, artist in words, dedicate, then, to you, artist whose ideas speak in marble, this well-loved work of my matured manhood. I love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. I love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the Few. My affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform.

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.

Greensleeves was all my joy,Greensleeves was my delight;Greensleeves was my heart of gold,And who but Lady Greensleeves.

God gave the angels wings, and he gave humans chocolate.

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Joy is not a strong enough word.

That first peach slithers down his throat like rapture. A sunrise in his mouth.

The same may be said for excessive delight, lust and fear. The way forward, Cicero wrote, was to distance oneself from the cares and desires of life.

Rudolf was well-nigh convinced that the man had been on his track: he would make certainty surer. The bold game was always his choice and his delight; this trait he shared with Rupert of Hentzau, and hence arose, I think, the strange secret inclination he had for his unscrupulous opponent.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Pudding is my favourite part of any meal and I always have one if I can manage it.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

I am very fond of chocolates.

I've always been a foodie. I love food!

I like eating. I like food.

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.