Books Quote by Anonymous

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

— C. S. Lewis

“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead…

— C.S. Lewis

“She’s beautiful, delightful, elegant, exquisite, charming, divine, captivating, gorgeous, stunning, bewitching, admirable, and a million other inadequate words.”

— Jewel E. Ann

“She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as…

— Charles Dickens

I was, For a moment, Beautiful, Kind, And Lovely, And than, I was wicked, Naughty. I giggle in each case, An exquisite coin, Watch…

— Eric Nickel

“Finally, a twenty-two old girl was dazzled by the world's brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of…

— Anonymous

It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought.…

— Markus Zusak

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

— Anonymous

“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be…

— Victor Hugo

“Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what…

— Robert Walser

“I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and…

— Leo Tolstoy

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

— William Shakespeare