A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
- Edmund Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful
(pt. I, sec. 14)
The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.
- William Shakespeare,
Hamlet Prince of Denmark
(Hamlet at II, ii)
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 the light of truth, which truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
- William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost
(Berowne at I, i)
This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government,
A city on whom Plenty held full hand,
For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;
Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,
And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at;
Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,
Like one another's glass to trim them by;
Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,
And not so much to feed on as delight;
All poverty was scorned, and pride so great
The name of help grew odious to repeat.
- William Shakespeare,
Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv)
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
(Friar Laurence at II, vi)
A lonely impulse of delight.
- William Butler Yeats
