Welcome to my blog post about delight quotes! Quotes about delight can be inspiring and uplifting. They can remind us that life is full of joy and that we can find happiness in the simplest of things. They can also remind us to appreciate the little things, and to stay positive even when times are tough. In this post, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite delight quotes and why I love them. I hope they bring a bit of sunshine into your day!
The best delight quotes
1. Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account. — Oswald Chambers
2. There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. — Samuel Johnson
3. You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. — Sergei Parajanov
4. Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. — Rumi
5. You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts. — Pema Chodron
6. Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head. — Orson Welles
8. Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath. — Richard Branson
10. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
11. Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. — Oprah Winfrey
12. May your season shine with delight and surprise. — Mary Anne Radmacher
13. Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. — William Shakespeare
14. Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. — William Hazlitt
15. Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination. — Thomas Kinkade
16. The mind delights in making connections. — Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
17. In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head. — Orson Welles
19. My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do. — Vivien Leigh
20. Pay–per–view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics. — Mary Lou Retton
21. We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
22. Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. — Nancy Gibbs
23. A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you. — Samuel Johnson
24. Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life–in her two lives–she felt absolutely unstoppable. — Rick Riordan
25. Good–hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us. — Randy Alcorn, Happiness
26. She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. — Markus Zusak
27. She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. — Markus Zusak
28. Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind’s delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson
29. I want people to be transported by the hotel. I’m thinking, What is it that would make people be delighted and amazed? — Steve Wynn
30. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self–examination. — Mencius
31. If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you’ll be delighted. — Warren W. Wiersbe
32. We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there. — Stephen Malkmus
33. Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight. — Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass
34. So it was scary, but that’s how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. — Michael Chabon
35. If you can’t lick’em, join’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. — Ursula K. Le Guin
36. Mrs. Rachel was one of those delightful and popular people who pride themselves on speaking their mind without fear or favor. — L.M. Montgomery
37. We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food. — Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
38. Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. — Mason Cooley
39. Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight. — Masatoshi Koshiba
40. Who said, ‘All Time’s delightHath she for narrow bed;Life’s troubled bubble broken’?–––That’s what I said. — Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie
41. There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey. — Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape
42. I understand that you don’t want to marry me, ‘ I said. ‘I mean, I don’t know why, since I’m simply delightful to be around. But to each his own taste. — Merrie Haskell, The Princess Curse
43. Gratitude goes beyond a delight for a gift — it is a feeling directed towards the giver.
44. Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures. — Martin Luther
45. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — e. e. cummings
46. Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary. — Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
47. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. — Meher Baba
48. It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death. — Octavio Paz
49. From heav’nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. — Thomas Campion
50. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
Conclusion
We hope that these delight quotes have filled you with joy and have inspired you to find delight in the little moments throughout your day. As we’ve seen, it’s the small things that can make the biggest difference in your life, and when you appreciate them, you can experience true delight. So, the next time you’re feeling down, remember to take a step back and appreciate the little things in life, and you’ll soon be filled with delight.
