Delights

Famous quotes containing the word delights:

“Breathing with such suppression of the heart
As joy delights in; and, with wise restraint”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)