(462 quotes found)
“We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou
“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
George Santayana
“Had other aims than my delight.”
Thomas Hardy
“To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near... You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight”
William Shakespeare
“We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.”
Giordano Bruno
“When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”
Emile M. Cioran
“As high as we have mounted in delight,In our dejection do we sink as low.”
William Wordsworth
“I'm delighted to be part of an organization of dedicated journalists whose sole mission is to report the news every minute of every hour every day,”
Connie Chung
