Top Delight Quotes
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
God created me to delight people with my goals.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville 
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke
78% of people like this quote
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
70% of people like this quote
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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
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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
Carol P. Christ
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Daniel Boone
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Popular Delight Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonMason CooleySamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaFrancis BaconBertrand RussellGeorge SantayanaKahlil GibranEmile M. CioranRobert FrostArthur SchopenhauerLao TzuFranz KafkaSamuel RichardsonCharles Baudelaire
William BlakeGeorg C. LichtenbergHelen KellerFriedrich SchillerHerman MelvillePercy Bysshe Shelley SocratesHannah ArendtJoseph JoubertVladimir NabokovHenry FieldingJohn LockeIsaac AsimovGeorge Henry LewesSydney Smith
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