DELIGHT

Related Subjects: Bliss, Happiness, Joy, Merriment, Pleasure, Sweetness

1. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
   

2. The soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.—BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell
   

3. 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear.—THOMAS MOORE, The Young May Moon
   

4. Excess of delight palls the appetite.—Proverb
   

5. All unwarrantable delights have an ill farewell.—Proverb
   

6. Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

7. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
   Which with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
   

8. These violent delights have violent ends
   And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
   Which as they kiss consume.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

9. Rarely, rarely, comest thou,
   Spirit of Delight.—SHELLEY, Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou

10. Delight, the rootless flower,
    And love, the bloomless bower;
    Delight that lives an hour,
    And love that lives a day.—SWINBURNE, Before Dawn