Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love. — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes. — Horace Copy Share Image
The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. — David Zippel Copy Share Image
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in… — Eric Hiscock Copy Share Image
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image