Best Delightful Words
408 Delightful quotes by 311 unique authors
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The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the…
— Richard Baxter
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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
— Honore de Balzac
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
— Samuel Johnson
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A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and…
— Robert Harris
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A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble…
— Dorothy Draper
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It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated…
— Unknown Author
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive…
— William Hazlitt
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I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you,…
— Charles Dickens
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Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating…
— Dorothy Draper
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All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though…
— Robert Southey
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
— Oscar Wilde
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Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
— C.S. Lewis
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A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
— Unknown Author
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Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a…
— Jen Lancaster
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M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on…
— Elizabeth Haydon
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With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the…
— Unknown Author
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A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its…
— Donna Jo Napoli
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Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into…
— Oswald Chambers
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I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life…
— J. Sidlow Baxter
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I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,…
— Maile Meloy
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Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut…
— S. Bear Bergman
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