Delight Quotes

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. (Bertrand Russell)
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. View quote
Robert Frost
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. View quote
E. E. Cummings
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. View quote
Emil Cioran
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. View quote
Samuel Richardson
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. View quote
Gerald Durrell
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. View quote
Alexander Smith
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. (Jane Austen)
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. View quote
William Congreve
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delight to tell it. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. View quote
John Denham
Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. View quote
Edmund Burke
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. View quote
Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. View quote
Maya Angelou
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. View quote
Joseph Addison