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Quotes About Delightful

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.
~ Rick Riordan
Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.
~ Amy Leigh Mercree
Mighty is the charm Of these abstractions to a mind beset With images, and haunted by herself And specially delightful unto me Was that clear synthesis built up aloft So gracefully.
~ William Wordsworth
The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.
~ xenophon ii
Was it not Winston Churchill who said that a cat is a riddle, inside an enigma, inside a delightful pelt of cuddliness?
~ David Michie
Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.
~ Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Boyd wasn't scared of clowns. Never had been. He thought their antics were delightfully amusing, just as they intended.
~ Jeff Strand
Carina." Which means: Cute.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He thought her delightful, - freckles, picnic-untidiness and all.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
What fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that mattered, a precious thing!
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
It has been funny and delightful, that little interlude of admiration, but of course it couldn't go on once Caroline appeared. Rose knew her place.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
African Peanut Stew • MAKES 6 SERVINGS • THIS DEEPLY FLAVORFUL STEW, BRIMMING with a rainbow of hearty vegetables—sweet potato, eggplant, red peppers, tomatoes, and collard greens—is made rich, creamy, and totally irresistible with a generous scoop of peanut butter melted into the mix. The crunch of peanuts on top echoes the flavor in the stew and add a delightfully crunchy contrast.
~ Ellie Krieger
But there's something delightfully old-school about sitting in the BBC - obviously wearing a bow tie and monocle - with a co-presenter who forgets there's a webcam in there. It's also nice to hear from the general public when they're not swearing at you or asking to extend their credit limit.
~ Alan Carr
Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.
~ Darby Stanchfield
What'd did I tell you?" muttered Adrian. He has no fuzzy affection for his father. "De-lightful.
~ Richelle Mead
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
~ Roald Dahl
Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!
~ Roald Dahl
Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Charmers. First, they don't talk much about themselves, which heightens their mystery and disguises their limitations. Second, they seem to be interested in us, and their interest is so delightfully focused that we relax and open up to them. Finally Charmers are pleasant to be around. They have none of most people's ugly qualities—nagging, complaining, self-assertion. They seem to know what pleases.
~ Robert Greene
Your targets cannot idealize you if they know too much about you, if they start to see you as all too human. Not only must you maintain a degree of distance, but there must be something fantastical and bewitching about you, sparking all kinds of delightful possibilities in their mind.
~ Robert Greene
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~ Kim Harrison
The demon's eyes flicked to mine, his smile widening. This is Nicholas Gregory Sparagmos's room, he said, and my breath caught. Delightful, just delightful! What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Ooooh, he summoned you to the West Coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you for taking care of that little problem! I should give you a bunny. Where is he? Stuffed in a closet? ~ Algaliarept, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
~ Kim Harrison
This was weird, civilized. Yes, I've come to rob you, sir. / How delightful; won't you have some tea before you do?
~ Kim Harrison