146 Delight Quotes for You to Enjoy

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. Ben Jonson

Mind Fury Punishment Delight Like Itself Vice Vicious Turns

Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time. Bertie Carvel

Time Joy Challenge Sense Gone Every Every Time Hundredth Ourselves Has-Been Delight Adult Instinctive Amazement Doing Been Discover Discovery Going Children Stale Us Working Keep Professionally

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. Boris Pasternak

Life Work Time Best Day You Remember First Exhausted Energy Starts Back Our One Time Lies Seemingly Delight Come Efforts Just Forgotten Order Stores Therein Brings

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net. Charlie Brooker

Face Painting Kicks Net Delight Colour Roaring Ball Team Imagine

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. David Bowie

Will Think Delight Always Provide Source Endless

Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact. Dick Durbin

Important State Consider Local Local Governments Immediately Plug Impact Having Delight Investors Fail Long-Term Budget Without Important Questions Dollars Governments Questions Very Wall Wall Street Often Holes Available Taxes Ask Billions Appealing Billions Of Dollars Street Raising Raising Taxes

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? Edmund Spenser

Liberty Fall Enjoy More Delight Felicity Than Creature

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. Emil Cioran

We Cannot Ourselves Delight Delivered Cannot

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world. Emma Donoghue

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. Erica Jong

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God. Ernest Holmes

God Universe Must Delight Self-Expression Exist

Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don't know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely, profoundly, preciously grateful for every smile, squeal, and - yes - diaper blowout. Faith Salie

Smile Grateful Every Would Delight Feel Know Mothers Were Diaper Yes Children Younger Ages Profoundly

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

Arrogant Down Angle Delight Knock Blood Deep Thing

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment. Greil Marcus

Disappointment Immediately Van Delight Never Crushing Been Listened Whether Album

Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.' Gza

Rapper Back Way Rap Delight Had Always Goes

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does. Hattie Morahan

Me Few Live Complete Laugh Out Delight David Writers He Make Read Make Me Laugh Does Heard Loud Which Bus Recently

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not. Henry Alford

Best Dark Hopes Shall Delight Know Lot Wherein Bright

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing. Henry Austin Dobson

Blessing Sense Every Thou All Things Slumber Delight Thy Hour Look Till Deathly Lovely Paid Seal Utmost Things Last Night

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. Hugh Laurie

Life Hope Me Goals Job Three My Life Nothing Say Embarrassing Has-Been Must Delight Most Principal Proud Least Doing Been Children Avoid Who Agreeable Now

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form. Irving Stone

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