the delights QUOTES

1 " As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. "

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2 " You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'You'd think someone would notice, or think it was odd.'

'Oh, that's one of the delights of the older Cambridge colleges,' said Reg, 'everyone is so discreet. If we all went around mentioning what was odd about each other we'd be here till Christmas. "

― Douglas Adams , Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)

3 " I think I know the delights of freedom "

― Charles Dickens , Great Expectations

4 " Feel the delights of love with the heart, not with the mind. "

5 " How dull would it be to consume my meat with only one variety of sauce? My body and spirit would whither, being fed on such limited fare. To sample the delights of a great many women is considered right and healthy for a man, yet the opposite is held true for those of our sex. Where we display undue interest in sexual matters, even within marriage, we are thought immoral. For myself, I can only conceive of such limitation with horror: a torture for which I have no taste.”

Mademoiselle Noire - The Gentlemen's Club "

― Emmanuelle de Maupassant , The Gentlemen's Club (Noire #1)

6 " Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. "

― Wayne Gerard Trotman

7 " When one loves knowingly, when one loves consciously, with full knowledge, with full understanding, the delights of a person in love are nothing in comparison with the delights of love that sprouts only from the spirit. "

8 " Sake

The jewel which brightly shines at night
Is precious, but cannot measure up
To the delights of drinking sake,
Drowning one's troubles in the cup.

Otomo no Tabito "

― , Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry

9 " When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment " ) "

10 " I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. "

― Gabriel García Márquez , Memories of My Melancholy Whores

11 " One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'! "

12 " 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. "

13 " Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. "