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Quotes About Delight

Have fun! It starts with a smile.
~ sindiswa matyobeni
A source of innocent merriment!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
~ Melody Beattie
I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
~ John Woolman
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
~ William Blake
Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
~ Charles Sprague Sargent
I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.
~ Claude Monet
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
~ Edmund Waller
I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
~ John Locke
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
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
~ William Carey Jones
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
~ William Shakespeare
I still love red velvet cake.
~ Molly Sims
Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing.
~ Richard Rolle
Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.
~ Richelle Mead
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
I love the little tacos. I love them goooood!
~ Invader
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
~ Dante Alighieri
What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.
~ Zoe Weil
I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid native gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify, and their constant delight in all that of Oxford their English brethren don't notice, and their constant fear that they are being corrupted, are a noble, rather than a comfortable, element in the social life of the University.
~ Max Beerbohm