Delightful Quotes
Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.
I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.
If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.
It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.
Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy.
Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.
We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.
Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.
