Delightful Things Quotes

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

  Edgar Degas

  Understanding, Charming, Conversation

  Edgar Degas (1948). “Letters”

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• Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

  Epictetus

  Delightful, Dues, Exceed

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.192, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

  W. E. Johns

  Garden, Desire, Essentials

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Lying, Delightful

  "Crime and Punishment".

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• It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world is crammed with delightful things

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Delightful

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.66, Virginia Woolf

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• What a delightful thing this perspective is!

  Paolo Uccello

  Perspective, Delightful

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• 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.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Stars, Glowing, Sky

  John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25

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• There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Men, Broken, World

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• "Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Running, Selfish

  Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

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• One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

  Zhou Enlai

  Memories, Historical, Delightful

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• We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Distance, Journey

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• Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  "Exclusive: Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate". Interview with Danielle Kourtesis, flavorwire.com. July 23, 2009.

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, People, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.28, University of Illinois Press

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• I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

  Anita Loos

  Running, Home, Thinking

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Forgiving, Worship

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.131, Google Publishing

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• Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Cheer, Pain, Real

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• What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivational, Art, War

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Use, Spirit

  Martin Luther (1960). “Lectures on Genesis”

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• One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.

  Margery Fish

  Friendship, Flower, Inspiration

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• 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.

  Maile Meloy

  Party, Thinking, Giving

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• It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

  James Taylor

  Guitar, Mouths, Coming Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.

  Zicheng Hong

  Regret, Drug, Taoism

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