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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city. -- Carolina Herrera
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile -- William Cowper
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart? -- C. S. Lewis
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that -- Tahereh Mafi
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought. -- William Cowper
Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines). -- Robert Scoble
The delights of self-discovery are always available. -- Gail Sheehy
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. -- Georg Brandes
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. -- George MacDonald
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him. -- Alphonsus Liguori
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect. -- Anne Bronte
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. -- Minna Antrim
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. -- Richard Barnfield
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. -- Giacomo Casanova
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. -- Francois Fenelon
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -- Khalil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -- Khalil Gibran
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? -- Joseph Addison
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. -- Roald Dahl
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. -- George Sand
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could. -- Charles R. Swindoll
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -- Washington Irving
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. -- Henri Poincare
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. -- Anna Pavlova
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? -- Marquis de Sade
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. -- Charles Spurgeon
I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.' -- Jean Craighead George
There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good. -- Adam Richman
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall. -- Saint Basil
Life delights in life. -- William Blake
Often a retrospect delights the mind. -- Dante Alighieri
Mortal beauty stings while it delights. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
God delights to disappoint man's fears. -- Lettie Cowman
The mind delights in making connections. -- Nicholas Boothman
Nature delights in progress; in advance. -- Edward Young
These violent delights have violent ends. -- William Shakespeare
... me He now delights to spare. -- Charles Wesley
Violent delights tend to have violent ends. -- Richard Ramirez
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness -- Charles Baudelaire
God delights in answering our impossible prayers. -- Bob Goff
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting. -- Elijah Fenton
The man of humanity delights in mountains -- Confucius
A man of wisdom delights in water. -- Confucius
We have a God who delights in impossibilities. -- Billy Sunday
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. -- Meher Baba
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. -- William Shakespeare
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. -- Francois de Malherbe
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... -- H. G. Wells
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. -- John Keats
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. -- Jane Kenyon
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. -- Joseph Addison
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. -- William Hazlitt
Admiration is one of the chief delights of living. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! -- Joseph Joubert
The Lord delights in every little step you take. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. -- Jules Verne
Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. -- William Cowper
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. -- William Blake
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers. -- Bill Hybels
Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most? -- Pietro Aretino
Each man delights in the work that suits him best. -- Homer
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. -- Lactantius
God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft. -- Joseph Caryl
Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. -- Bernadette Soubirous
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory. -- Blaise Pascal
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights. -- Thom Yorke
Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him -- John Owen
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development. -- Max Lucado
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. -- Bernard Tschumi
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked. -- Ovid
For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. -- Johannes Brahms
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. -- Rabindranath Tagore
God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided. -- Max Anders
It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress. -- Danica McKellar
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. -- John Calvin
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. -- George Henry Lewes
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. -- Richard Bach
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. -- Abraham Cowley
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next -- Gautama Buddha
The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. -- George MacDonald
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. -- Alison Bechdel
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22 -- Deborah Smith
Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath ... -- Robert Wyland
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability. -- David Platt
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?" -- Novalis
Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. -- Andre Breton
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination. -- Thomas Kinkade
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise. -- Marcus Aurelius
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? -- Novalis
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. -- David Brainerd
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. -- Samuel Johnson
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. -- Jacques Amyot
In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost. -- James Beard
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. -- Jonathan Edwards
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. -- Plutarch
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. -- Anna Neagle
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation. -- James Hogg
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. -- Carl Linnaeus
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you. -- Elizabeth George
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. -- Emanuel Lasker
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations -- Hippocrates
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. -- Anthony Burgess

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