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Quotes About 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.
~ Billy Connolly
My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
~ Orlando Bloom
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
~ Zooey Deschanel
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
~ Brother Lawrence
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
~ Galileo Galilei
Suddenly the Doctor heard the greatest sound in the universe, more delightful than the dawn chorus, more lovely than the laughter of children, more sweet than the mountain stream. It was the wheezing, groaning sound of the relative dimensional stabiliser of a Type 40 TARDIS in materialisation mode.
~ Gareth Roberts
What a delightful, lazy, languid time we had whilst we were thus gliding along!
~ Herman Melville
It is as sweet as early grass butter in April.
~ Herman Melville
The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
~ Yves Behar
Abroad little towns seemed to possess a bustling other-life, like insects below the grass. There were often mysteries to uncover, mysteries that could be cherished like gems unexpectedly discovered in a rock that had seemed uniformly grey. Here, the social structure demanded a different kind of behaviour-upright, polite, mannered-but that usually meant mysteries, when they were coaxed from hiding, were all the more delightful and perverse.
~ Storm Constantine
Being here to witness the beauty, to learn, to be astonished, to love - is enough. Being able to create in addition is a delightful honour.
~ Jay Woodman
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
~ Saint Bernard
she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.
~ Carol Shields
I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine." He took a giant whiff. "Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?" "Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms." "Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.
~ Kathy Reichs
I cannot write of things which even impassioned breath cannot utter. Autumn is coming with its days of gold, its days of reverie and of you—oh, such delightful hours that my heart burns within me at the anticipation.
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
There are, after all, some chemicals that explode shatteringly, some that flame ravenously, some that corrode hellishly, some that poison sneakily, and some that stink stenchily. As far as I know, though, only liquid rocket fuels have all these delightful properties combined into one delectable whole.
~ Isaac Asimov
Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
~ Martin Luther
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
~ Anatole France
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
~ Cicero
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!
~ John Burroughs
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne