Best Delightful Lines
408 Delightful quotes by 311 unique authors
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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
— Publilius Syrus
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Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
— Anthony de Mello
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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
— Maxwell Maltz
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A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
— Joseph Addison
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
— Andre Maurois
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange…
— Diana Vreeland
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There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and…
— John Ray
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Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that…
— Francis Quarles
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When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way…
— Unknown Author
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Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
— Oscar Wilde
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Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.
— Danielle LaPorte
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If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful…
— Claude Debussy
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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation…
— Gerald of Wales
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You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.
— Thomas Traherne
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Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and…
— Michael Crichton
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
— John Milton
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world…
— E. M. Forster
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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no place more delightful than home.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of…
— Stella Reid
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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end…
— Barry Humphries
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