Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
Francois de Malherbe

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
Alphonsus Liguori

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison

The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
Samuel Rutherford

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Ovid