Quotes About Delight

The exercise of power is a dangerous delight. The short path is the only path but it is very steep.

There had been anguish, fear, indecision, then gradually the brightness of her presence cast beforehand, obliterating all else. Then I was with her and there was strange blankness, and utter calm of delight. Suddenly, down into the furthest crannies of being all was well. It was all so strangely simple too, with a blameless simplicity as of childhood.

The presence of so many things which ought to have delighted her and been her friends brought home to Moy how little delight she could now feel and how alienated she now was from all the beings to which she had once felt so close.

No puedo separar el erotismo de la comida y no veo razón para hacerlo, al contrario, pretendo seguir disfrutando de ambos mientras las fuerzas y el buen humor me alcancen.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear, (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day, "What was the score?"; people take it for granted that you lost.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

She was killing him and doing it so gleefully. He