Delightful Quotes

408 quotes by 324 authors

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. — John Barrymore
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. — Joseph Brodsky
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. — Bill Bryson
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing… — Louisa May Alcott
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to… — Arthur Dove
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. — Edmund Spenser
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to… — William Cowper
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. — Helen Keller
We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee… — Jerry Seinfeld
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to… — Alexander Smith
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. — W. E. Johns
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. — Donald C. Peattie
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the… — George Washington
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything… — Emile Zola
It is delightful to play the fool. — Horace
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be… — John Donne
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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