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Quotes About Delightful

How funny are dogs?
~ John Marsden
You're not a dork, you're adorkable.
~ Elizabeth Fama
Other than a dimple in a cute little chin, What's more adorable than a toothless grin?
~ Azu "Betty" Espezia
The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.
~ George Eliot
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
~ Billy Connolly
I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.
~ James Adomian
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
~ Charles Spurgeon
To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-- delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarely favoured and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~ Samuel Butler
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
~ Samuel Johnson
All this was delightful in the extreme; but not the less did ordinary men seem to expect that the usual battle would go on in the old customary way. It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
~ Anthony Trollope
What an eternal art it is--such a glittery delightful art--finding hard names for our opponents! How we do sanctify our efforts to keep them from getting the holy dollars we want for ourselves!
~ Sinclair Lewis
It seems to me that we are always falling off the horse on one side or the other in this matter of being tough and tender, durable and delightful, courageous and compassionate—wimping out on truth when we ought to be lionhearted, or wrangling when we ought to be weeping.
~ John Piper
The launderette, you say? Hmm. Delightful as a career manning the tumble dryers sounds, I think I'll stick with songwriting for a bit longer.
~ Elton John
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
~ Emily Dickinson
C'était une de ces soirées délicieuses à l'âme, un de ces moments qui ne s'oublient jamais, une de ces heures passées dans la paix et le désir, et dont, plus tard, le charme est toujours un sujet de regret, même quand nous nous trouvons plus heureux.
~ Balzac
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
~ balzac honore de vii
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
~ David Walliams
Rane is a big help... he is a hands-on father, sometimes delightfully changing nappies.
~ Koel Mallick
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
~ Georges Bataille
He seems an agreeable creature. But that is how it is always! The less eligible a man is the more delightful he is bound to be! You may depend upon it.
~ Georgette Heyer
For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.
~ Francis Collins
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.
~ Leonard Maltin
The muses are wicked and wonderful, devious and delightful, not to be trusted and not to be ignored. Thank God we have them.
~ Mark W. Travis