Delight Quotes - Page 29

• The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Grace, Saving

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Passion, Heart

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

  Barbara Holland

  Spiritual, Eye, Sight

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• Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

  Hosea Ballou

  Love Is, Faithful, Ignorant

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• Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

  Joseph Joubert

  Excess, Deprived

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

  Robert Johnson

  Food, Eye, Garden

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

  Novalis

  Spring, Flower, Air

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• Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Ideas, Desire

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• Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Admiration, Chiefs

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.37, Knopf

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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Food, Emotional

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird
  That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
  That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight,
  That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
  Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,--
  Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Heart, Names

  Frances Sargent OSGOOD, Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY (1850). “Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc”, p.365

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• If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

  Francis Atterbury

  God, Perfection, Holy

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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

  Eliza Haywood

  Jealousy, Pain, Years

  Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.183, Broadview Press

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• A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
  Conversed as they sat on the green.
  They gazed on each other with tender delight,
  Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight--
  The maiden's the Fair Imogene.

  Matthew Gregory Lewis

  Love, Warrior, Names

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• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Spring, Grief

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.

  Dacia Maraini

  Art, Memories, Men

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• The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.

  Diana Athill

  Horse, Eight, Order

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• The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Blessing, Enjoy

  Thomas Watson (1848). “A Divine Cordial; the Saint's Spiritual Delight; the Holy Eucharist; and Other Treatises”, p.97

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• American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Technology, Thinking, People

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Letters, Kind, Ineffable

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• Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Nature, Diversity, Intellectual

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• Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

  Jane Kenyon

  Joy, Red, Tense

  Jane Kenyon (2005). “Collected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Children, Volcanoes, Youth

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