Delight

Famous quotes containing the word delight:

“My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

“Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler’s Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,—
“Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud?””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)