Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case. [ Cowper ]
And oft a retrospect delights the mind. [ Dante ]
Mortal beauty stings while it delights. [ Bovee ]
Be always as merry as ever you can,
For no man delights in a sorrowful man. [ Proverb ]
Man delights not me, - nor woman neither. [ William Shakespeare ]
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting. [ Elijah Fenton ]
These should be hours for necessities.
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times. [ William Shakespeare ]
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our dangers and delights are near allies.
From the same stem the rose and prickle rise. [ Aleyn ]
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
Which, with pain purchased doth inherit pain. [ William Shakespeare ]
All unwarrantable delights have an ill farewell. [ Proverb ]
Sweets with sweets war not; joy delights in joy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! [ Joubert ]
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble minds,)
To scorn delights and live laborious days. [ Milton ]
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. [ Hazlitt ]
Love delights to bring her best,
And where love is, that offering evermore is blest. [ Keble ]
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine.
Now singing sweetly to surprise her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lover's paine,
Bransles, ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine!
Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devys'd;
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entys'd
To take to his new love, and leave her old despys'd. [ Spenser ]
He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. [ Horace ]
It is poverty of spirit that God delights in - poverty, and not beggarliness. [ Claudius ]
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. [ Lactantius ]
Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. [ William Shakespeare ]
Like other tyrants, death delights to smite what, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power and arbitrary nod. [ Young ]
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. [ Samuel Johnson ]
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation. [ Feltham ]
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness. [ Bovee ]
A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases. [ William Ellery Channing ]
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]
Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]
To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do.
[ Steele ]
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]