Quotes About Delight

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

I love to entertain an audience.

Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

Kids love rabbits... they just like them.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

Let's not malign the restaurants," said Des Hermies. "They afford a very special delight to the person who has the instinct of the inspector. I had an opportunity to gratify this instinct just the other night. I was returning from a call on a patient, and I dropped into one of these establishments where for the sum of three francs you are entitled to soup, two selected dishes, a salad, and a dessert.

La universidad ha arruinado desde hace generaciones la vitalidad del pensamiento y queda ya solo su momia y su esqueleto, como algo que se enseña de tal hora a tal hora. Pensar es otra cosa. Es terror, entusiasmo, desazón, curiosidad, profunda delicia, exaltación... es lo qu ese produce cuando el vivir se estira, se acrece y siendo vivir es más que vivir Ortega y Gasset A la Biografia de Jordi Gracia

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.

Let me see you, O Light of my eyes. Come, O Joy of my spirit; let me behold you, O Gladness of my heart. Let me love you, O Life of my soul. Appear unto me, O my great delight, my sweet comfort, O my God, my life, and the whole glory of my soul. Let me find you, O Desire of my heart; let me hold you, O Love of my soul. Let me embrace you, O Heavenly Bridegroom. Let me possess you.

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.