Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there…

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…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they…

— Oscar Wilde

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…

— Alan Watts

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our…

— Janine Benyus

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned…

— Umberto Eco

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

— Ian Bogost

Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself…

— Joshua Malina

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

— Sir Fulke Greville

What a delightful thing this perspective is!

— Paolo Uccello

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

— Pierre Loti

“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact…

— Sy Montgomery

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

— Martin Luther

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter