Top 511 Delights Quotes & Sayings

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

The Lord delights in every little step you take.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.

God delights to disappoint man's fears.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

... me He now delights to spare.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

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

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

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

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

The man of humanity delights in mountains

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.