Delight

Delight is a word indicating sensations of pleasure or joy, or the process of giving pleasure or happiness.

Quotes

 * 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"