The world’s delight is a brief dream.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -…

— John Green

Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To…

— Edward Lear

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as…

— Theodore Dreiser

“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are…

— Tacitus

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

— Abraham Cowley

It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the…

— Emily Dickinson

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open…

— Aaron Betsky

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient…

— Jack London

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel…

— Rodney Clapp

Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and…

— Peter Capaldi