Delight
Appearance
Delight is a word indicating sensations of pleasure or joy, or the process of giving pleasure or happiness.
Quotes
[edit]- I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
- Edmund Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful, Part I, Section 14.
- Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 321.
- Why, all delights are vain; and that most vain,
Which with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act I, scene 1, line 72.
- Their tables were stor'd full, to glad the sight,
And not so much to feed on as delight:
All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
The name of help grew odious to repeat.- William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 4, line 28.
- These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 6, line 9.
- All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others. All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
- Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell #399.
- [D]elight
That is as wide-eyed as a marigold.- Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, Impression de Nuit—"The Green River"