Top 1200 Delightful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

There is no place more delightful than home.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

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, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Maple butter spread on a tortilla is absolutely delightful.

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.

Clint Eastwood was a most delightful man to work with.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

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

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

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

Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

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

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.