Delightful Quotes · Page 7

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

— Anthony de Mello

When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“The linages between the nodes that form the web of life- how delightful.”

— Gladys Chua

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

— Robert Osborne

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

— Jaron Lanier

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

— Zhou Enlai

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

— Desiderius Erasmus

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

— George Santayana

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere…

— Oscar Wilde

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought…

— William Hazlitt

There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

— Christopher Miller

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

— Jack Prelutsky

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

— Terry Pratchett

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry…

— Ian Bogost

In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him…

— Elias Lyman Magoon

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on…

— Samuel Johnson

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find…

— Charles R. Morris

Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism…

— Laurel Nakadate

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one…

— Leonardo da Vinci

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift…

— Pat Williams

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent…

— Robert Southey

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see…

— Saint Augustine

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

— Lord Byron

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

— Seneca the Younger

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

— Bertrand Russell

Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.

— Ty Burr

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

— Danielle LaPorte

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

— Elizabeth Goudge

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

— Martin Luther

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

— Plato

Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is…

— Shantideva

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there,…

— Elliott Abrams

[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of…

— Edward Gibbon

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

— Loretta Young

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that…

— Ian Bogost