Delighting Quotes

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. - Joshua Sylvester

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. - Homer

Reason has moons, but moons not hers / Lie mirror'd on her sea, / Confounding her astronomers, / But, O! delighting me. - Ralph Hodgson

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. - Horace

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. - Samuel Johnson

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. - Horace

For a century now artists have been accustomed to pushing outward the boundaries of what's called art, delighting in the squeals of people whose expectations are violated. But the old fun is gone. the conservatives, by and large, have given up the game. - John Hart

Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger into the wound on his head, laughing and delighting in the pain he's causing. He had to act as though he was in agony and terror without having many words to say. I was full of admiration for him. - Ralph Fiennes

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will. - William Butler Yeats