Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.