A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
46 quotes about delighting follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
English Proverb
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Publilius Syrus
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so.
Isaac Watts
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith
I just love children of this age. There is no edge to them at all, they are delightful.
Colin Walker
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
John Masefield
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
Jack Kerouac
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Alan Cohen
He's a scout's delight, but a coach killer.
National League
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
Frederick Locker Lampson
Conditions were very cramped, but the delight on the patients' faces made that all irrelevant.
Sarah Bunting
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
David Walliams
She's been a bright light for our program. She's a delightful person.
Steve Nunno
Having them here was quite a delight, ... even if we struggled against their depth.
Bill Tilden
The show is a delight for the entire family.
Bill Wallace
My childhood was absolutely delightful.
Kate Phillips
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
They squealed with delight and clapped their flippers when they saw their trainers.
Daily Express
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Vincent Mcnabb
I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.
Charles Keating
Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.
Jane Taylor
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
Henry Alford
It's a way for us to surprise and delight our customers who might not have expected to find us.
Domanick Davis
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
The quality of the houses is delightful.
Judy Gresser
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov
Reason has moons, but moons not hers / Lie mirror'd on her sea, / Confounding her astronomers, / But, O! delighting me.
Ralph Hodgson
[Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision.
Lord Hailsham
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
She's an absolute delight. She's inspiring, and the other kids around her get caught up in her enthusiasm.
Michelle Hoffman
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spenser
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire
I'm missing her already. She was a delight. She had a smile and she gave you a wave, always.
Patsy Jacobs
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas
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