Delighted Quotes - Page 11

• Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Levels, May

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Gzowski on FM", 1989.

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• Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Realizing, Primaries, Products

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.

  Charles James Fox

  Kings, Army, People

  "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 125), 1997.

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• When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

  Plato

  Men, Musician, Virtue

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.87

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

  Gautama Buddha

  Law, Security

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• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Blessing, Men

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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• Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, America, Liberty

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• I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.

  Haniel Long

  Dream, Taken, Secret

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• The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

  David Hume

  Running, Men, Order

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.180

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• Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Real, Humility

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• Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

  Aretha Franklin

  Together, Degrees, England

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• Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.

  Jenny Diski

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Secret, Popularity, Seems

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• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

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• None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

  Tacitus

  Sorrow, Shows, Greater

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• I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Lying, Self

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Medicine

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.1

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• Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Lying, Evil

  John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

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• how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Fun, Discovery

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Long, Calumny, Found

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.41

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• I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Book, Annoyed, Assuming

  "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Liars, Mean

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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

  William Sloane Coffin

  Way, Should, Unsure

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