This pretty ring† I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.

-Iron
  The Story of an African Farm, ch.17,'Lyndall'.

He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

-Smith, Rev Sydney
Of Lord Macaulay. Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1. ch.11.

When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Letter to Sir Horace Mann,7 Jul. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! :To be in it is merelya bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
GERALDLORD ILLINGWORTH1893  AWoman of No Importance, act 3.