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Quotes About Delight

The enemy thinks he's won. But I want to see his face when he realizes the truth. Don't you? It's going to be delightful.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Still, she soon began digging into her sundae again. "Chocolate," she said, "is the greatest invention of all time.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Macy enjoyed
~ Brenda Novak
Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet.
~ Brendan Francis
Presence, you will delight in the discovery of what it means to live by grace and not by performance.
~ Brennan Manning
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of Your universe. Delight me to see how Your Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not His, to the Father through the features of men's faces. Each day enrapture me with Your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
~ Brennan Manning
The more time you spend in the presence of Jesus, the less praise you'll need from others because you will have discovered for yourself that he is Enough. And in the Presence, you will delight in the discovery of what it means to live by grace and not by posing.
~ Brennan Manning
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
~ Helmut Newton
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
~ Henry David Thoreau
as many of my readers, I hope, know what an exquisite delight there is in conveying pleasure to a beloved object, so some few, I am afraid, may have experienced the satisfaction of tormenting one we hate.
~ Henry Fielding
He gave me a look, but in the dusk I couldn't make out very well what it conveyed.  Then he bent over his mother, kissing her.  "My news isn't particularly satisfactory.  I'm going for you." "Oh you humbug!" she replied.  But she was of course delighted.
~ Henry James
There is life and life, and as waste is only life sacrificed and thereby prevented from counting, I delight in a deep breathing economy and an organic form.
~ Henry James
Do anything but let it produce joy. Do anything but let it yield ecstasy.
~ Henry Miller
The success of his conference with her, and the accession that was made to the kingdom of God, filled his mind with such delight, as seemed to have redounded to his very body, refreshing his spirits, and making him forget the thirst whereof he complained before, and refuse the meat which he had sent his disciples to buy.
~ Henry Scougal
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from Voices of the Night)
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight.
~ Herman Melville
Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
~ Herman Melville
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense.
~ Tom Douglas
If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.
~ Giles Andreae
I eat chocolate and I love sweet treats.
~ Tess Daly
All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Be a burst of joy.
~ A.D. Posey
Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
I want you to be.... happy.
~ Nicholas Sparks