Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Margaret Cavendish

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
Thomas Campion

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius

God created me to delight people with my goals.
Romario

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.
Leslie Charteris

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
Joseph Butler

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.
Bradley Chicho

I delight in what I fear.
Shirley Jackson

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
Elias Hicks

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
J. William Fulbright

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Venerable Bede

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
Henry Alford

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
Isabel Yosito