Best Delightful Sayings
408 Delightful quotes by 311 unique authors
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All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.
— Octave Chanute
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And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a…
— Tessa Dare
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk…
— Ava Gardner
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I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and…
— Myrna Loy
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Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her…
— Cecil Murphey
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Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and…
— Colleen Coble
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What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to…
— Aldo Leopold
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
— Anthony de Mello
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I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
— Jane Austen
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
— George Eliot
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some…
— Margaret Mead
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... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful…
— Gautama Buddha
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One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by…
— Margery Fish
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Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of…
— Larry Lea
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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
— Plato
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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 it now seems;…
— Stephen Burt
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Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves…
— Robert Penn Warren
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The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious…
— William McDonough
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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of…
— Washington Irving
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It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.
— Enrique Vila-Matas
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God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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