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"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few." »John Masefield
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"All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." »Doris Lessing
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"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." »Doris Lessing
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight." »Paul Claudel
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"Never find your delight in another's misfortune." »Publilius Syrus
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"Energy is eternal delight." »William Blake
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"What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them." »Vincent McNabb
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"Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly." »John Owen
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." »Alexander Smith
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"Danger and delight grow on one stalk." »English Proverb
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"I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion." »Jack Kerouac
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"Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards" »Siddharth Astir
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." »Robert Frost
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." »Kahlil Gibran
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"To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight." »William Shakespeare
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"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser
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"The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company." »Samuel Johnson
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"The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save." »John Gay
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"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use." »Sir John Denham
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit." »A. Bronson Alcott
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save." »John Gay
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"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." »William Wordsworth
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." »e.e. cummings
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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." »Barbara Schapiro
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell." »Bertrand Russell
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