Delightful Quotes
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
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.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture
It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
