Delight Quotes - Page 5

• I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Suffering, World

  "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 2004.

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

  George Santayana

  Positive, War, Remembrance

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.262, Рипол Классик

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• To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Hours, Ennui

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• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Looks, Wonder

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• There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

  Seneca the Younger

  Helping Others, Helping

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• Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

  Bertrand Russell

  Cynical, Religion, Atheism

  Sceptical Essays "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928)

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• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Business

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 4, l. 20

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• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  Inspiration, Poetry, Icy

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

  Michael Chabon

  Scary, Scar

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• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

  Nora Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.411, Penguin

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• My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

  Robert Bridges

  Angel, Night, Garden

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, World, Refuge

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

  John Locke

  Reflecting Upon, Ideas, Produce

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.146

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• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

  George Santayana

  Blood, History, Arrogant

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.51, MIT Press

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• Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol P. Christ

  Europe, Diversity, Unity

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• Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Kids, Views, Olympics

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• The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Actors, Celebration, Moments

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• I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

  Elias Hicks

  Eugenics, Mysterious, Lost

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223

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• The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

  Samuel Richardson

  Thinking, World, Levels

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.392

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• From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

  Thomas Campion

  Spring

  Thomas Campion, Joan Hart (1976). “Ayres & observations: selected poems of Thomas Campion”, Carcanet Pr

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• How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Friendship, People, Findings

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• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Men

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