Delightful Quotes

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 people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

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 of the contrary should not be offensive.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.