Delightful Quotes

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

— Joseph Brodsky

Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina.

— Melissa Joan Hart

“Lappi tue d'Auge uf - Delightful fool, open your eyes”

— Schaffhausen Schwabentor Switzerland

What a delightful thing this perspective is!

— Paolo Uccello

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell

— Emily Dickinson

Clint Eastwood was a most delightful man to work with.

— Nigel Hawthorne

War is delightful for those who don't know it

— Desiderius Erasmus

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

— James Russell Lowell

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

— Rebecca West

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

— Samuel Johnson

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

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

— Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

— Jane Hamilton

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

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

“I was no longer missing a piece. Jesus had taken all my insufficiencies, washed them away, and filled the very core of…

— Michael J Heil

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

— Alan Watts

Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out…

— Nathan Rabin

The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it…

— Richard P. Feynman

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the…

— Samuel Johnson

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that…

— Edith Wharton

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and…

— Van Wyck Brooks

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded…

— Marcus du Sautoy