Delightful Quotes · Page 6

When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.

— Jane Birkin

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game

— Murray Gell-Mann

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

— Bertrand Russell

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

— Nash Buckingham

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

— Harold Larwood

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

— Michel de Montaigne

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

— Bill Bryson

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.

— Dean Alford

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.…

— Confucius

Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before…

— Larry Lea

“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was…

— Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park

It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,…

— Margaret Mead

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with…

— Ben Miller

... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful…

— Mary Antin

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean…

— Nikki Giovanni

The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few…

— Jane Hamilton

Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein…

— Daniel Kleppner

A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as…

— Gary Zukav

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned…

— James M. Barrie

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

— Anonymous

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

— David James Duncan

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

— Kevin Spacey

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

— Anthony Holden

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

— Jane Austen

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

— Alexander Smith

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

— Louisa May Alcott

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

— Anonymous

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

— Toni Morrison

“He must have been delightful," she said, "when he was alive!”

— Margaret Widdemer

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

— John Tillotson

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

— Anonymous

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

— Gauri Khan

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

— Anthony de Mello

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe