#delight

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#anything #comes #delight #enjoy #enjoyed

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#among #boasting #carts #cleveland #delight

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#delight #enjoy #fall #felicity #liberty

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#ennui #exchange #hours #love #read

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly. ↗

— Charles Keating

#delightful #i #i love #love #sons

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#certainly #concerned #delightful #entertaining #even

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#admire #clothes #clothing #delight #delightful

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. ↗

— Anne Burack Sayre

#birthday #children-s #delightful #elementary-school #funny

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss. ↗

— Alan Jacobs

#innocence #imagination

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#delight #paris