If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
James Boswell

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir Nabokov

Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
Anthony de Mello

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
Amartya Sen

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
Jeff Goldblum

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
Mikhail Bakunin

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Austin Dobson

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
Joanna Newsom

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Louis D. Brandeis

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
Robert Bridges

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Daniel Boone