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

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Charles de Montesquieu

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
John H. Speke

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben Jonson

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Sissela Bok

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
Neal Barnard

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
Henry Wotton

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
Boris Pasternak

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