Delightful Quotes · Page 5

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful..

— Charles Baudelaire

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

— Ava Gardner

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

— Anatole France

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

— John Milton

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

— Danielle LaPorte

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and…

— Monica Edwards

“I don't wish to argue, whether the glass is half empty or half full, as long as what it holds, is pure…

— Akash Mandal

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new…

— George Eliot

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

— Pierre Loti

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not…

— Christina Stead

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply…

— Oscar Wilde

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is…

— Samuel Johnson

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,…

— Anthony de Mello

This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother…

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Janine Benyus

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth,…

— George Washington

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies…

— John Powell

You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've…

— Anthony de Mello

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole…

— Kim Hunter

It is true that He does sometimes require of us things that to others seem hard. But when the will is once…

— R. A. Torrey

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

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

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

— Gladys Chua

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

— Anthony de Mello

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Toni Morrison

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

— Anthony de Mello

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

— Anonymous

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

— John Tillotson

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

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting…

— Guy Pearce

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture

— Marcus Tullius Cicero