Delightful Quotes · Page 3

There is no place more delightful than home.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Toronto's a delightful city.

— Nellie McKay

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

— Seneca the Younger

I like pineapple. It's delightful.

— Sarah Drew

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

— Oswald Chambers

There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

— Eliza Lynn Linton

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

— Rose Macaulay

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

— A. C. Bradley

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

— Thomas de Quincey

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Kevin Spacey

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past,…

— James Beattie

“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above…

— Elizabeth Wein

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a…

— Myrna Loy

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

— W. G. Grace

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly…

— Henry Kirke White

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

— Thomas Jefferson

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of…

— George Bernard Shaw

I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and…

— William Stanley Jevons

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue…

— Martha Graham

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful…

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our…

— Pema Chodron

[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete…

— Keith Carradine

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any…

— Edmund Burke

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon…

— Gautama Buddha

My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as…

— Stephen Burt

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

— Anonymous

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Harold Larwood

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

— Jane Birkin

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

— Horace