Delightful Quotes · Page 2

“How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is to be sure”

— Charles Crumb

Toronto's a delightful city.

— Nellie McKay

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

— M. Jayachandran

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

— Helen Keller

What makes us human is what is delightful

— Genevieve Bell

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

— Charles Keating

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

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

— John Tillotson

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

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

— Gauri Khan

“He must have been delightful," she said, "when he was alive!”

— Margaret Widdemer

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

— Toni Morrison

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

— Donald C. Peattie

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the…

— Lewis Carroll

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is…

— William McDonough

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

— Oscar Wilde

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto…

— Leonard Maltin

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people…

— Christopher Moore

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to…

— Barry Humphries

I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about…

— Marsha Thomason

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this,…

— Richard P. Feynman

Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up…

— Peter McWilliams

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy…

— Woodrow Wilson

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in…

— George Eliot

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party…

— Maile Meloy

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work…

— John Ruskin

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

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

I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of…

— Catherine Ponder

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

— Gautama Buddha

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be…

— Richard Steele

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

— Edmund Burke

Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance…

— Philip Gambone

I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than…

— V. Raymond Edman