delight quotes

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost) [delight/wisdom]
• There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive. (Robert Burton) [human/delight/virtue/quality]
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana) [delight/war/soldier/quality]
• Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Thomas Gray) [delight]
• 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. (Joseph Addison) [delight/art/science/application]
• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. (Francis Bacon) [delight/ability]
• Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. (William Blake) [delight/desires/acts]
• Energy is eternal delight. (William Blake) [delight]
• Intelligence is nothing without delight. (Paul Claudel) [intelligence/delight]
• 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) [delight/thoughts]
• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [beauty/poetry/delight]
• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost) [delight/wisdom]
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. (Mahatma Gandhi) [human/delight/human/right]
• The brave love mercy, and delight to save. (John Gay) [love/mercy/delight]
• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. (John Gay) [love/mercy/delight]
• Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. (Thomas Hardy) [light/delight]
• The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. ( Horace) [delight/willpower]
• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/wonder/delight/company]
• Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [delight/system/people/truth]
• To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. (Katherine Mansfield) [delight]
• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. (Samuel Pepys) [church/strange/delight/people]
• Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. (Samuel Pepys) [strange/delight/people/condition]
• In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions. ( Plato) [love/delight/master/age]
• True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit. (Alexander Pope) [delight]
• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. (George Santayana) [thing/delight/blood]
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana) [delight/war/soldier/quality]
• There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ( Seneca) [delight]
• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. (William Shakespeare) [delight]
• I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. (Oscar Wilde) [delight/men/devotion]
• [When Meadow accompanied Walker on the Into the Blue Bahamas set in late 2003, co-star Alba took delight in watching father interact with daughter.] She's really girly and feminine, which is quite funny because Paul is so active and into sports, ... It's a nice balance for Paul. (Jessica Alba) [delight/nice/balance]
• I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and even relevant, immediate and urgent language... I was thrilled by Shakespeare. It surprised me, my profound delight in deciphering Shakespeare and making it completely flesh-and-blood. (Ben Kingsley) [absolute/language/delight]

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