Delightful Quote by C. S. Lewis

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are…

— Anonymous

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

— Cole Porter

“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

What a delightful thing this perspective is!

— Paolo Uccello

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is…

— Anonymous

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

— Charles Darwin

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Tell me a story of deep delight.

— Robert Penn Warren

What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it,…

— Alice McDermott

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

— Michel de Montaigne

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe,…

— John Milton

“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the joy is not complete until it is expressed. It is not out of…

— C.S. Lewis