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Delight Quotes by William Shakespeare
- As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all…
- To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
- Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
- The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.
- When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on…
- And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well…
- Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
- Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek…
- Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
- These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
- But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty…
- Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels…
- Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will…
- These violent delights have violent ends.
- These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome…
More Delight Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that… — Charles Baudelaire
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy… — Venerable Bede