Delight Quote by Joseph Joubert

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure…

— Victoria Moran

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

— Seneca the Younger

A lonely impulse of delight

— Anonymous

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

— Epictetus

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe…

— John Gerard

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

— Edmund Burke

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience…

— Mark Twain

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe,…

— John Milton

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

— Nikki Sixx

And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the…

— Pope Gregory I