| "Wherever the turkish hoof trods, no grass grows." »Victor Hugo |
| "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 |
| "Energy is eternal delight." »William Blake |
| "Never find your delight in another's misfortune." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." »Alexander Smith |
| "Danger and delight grow on one stalk." »English Proverb |
| "What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them." »Vincent McNabb |
| "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 |
| "The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight." »Desiderius Erasmus |
| "Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly." »John Owen |
| "To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight." »William Shakespeare |
| "Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards" »Siddharth Astir |
| "What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser |
| "I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save." »John Gay |
| "Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." »Barbara Schapiro |
| "To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them" »Rose Kennedy |
| "A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice." »Nora Roberts |
| "What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." »William Safire |
| "It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth." »Jeanne-Marie Roland |
| "Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural." »Alastair Reid |
| "Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology." »Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us." »J. B. Priestley |
| "The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." »Bertrand Russell |
| "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." »J. Krishnamurti |
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