Delightful Quotes - Page 13

• In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

  Martin Luther

  Garden, Sowing, Digging

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Real, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.365, University of Chicago Press

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• It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

  Bill Murray

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

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• Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

  Eric Hiscock

  Girl, Memories, War

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.838, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Lying, Crime And Punishment

  "Crime and Punishment".

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• A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fun, Light, Way

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• Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Book, Perfect, Secret

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.13, A&C Black

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• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Drawing, Sketching

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent W. van Gogh (1970). “Vincent Van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings : Exhibition”

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• Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.

  Mary Antin

  Giving Up, Memories, Drinking

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Crazy, Mad, World

  'The Jester's Plea' (1868)

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• I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”, p.53, Peschel Press

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• You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?

  Robert Jordan

  Thinking, Battle, Sound

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory Of Light: Book 14 of the Wheel of Time”, p.440, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Light

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• Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.

  Archibald Geikie

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

  Helen Wills

  Games, Tennis, Balls

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

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• What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

  Jimmy Hill

  Football, Team, Games

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• Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

  John Keats

  Dream, Loneliness, Eye

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Blessed, Order, Punishment

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• There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Naughty, Whispering

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 26, 2012

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• [Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.

  Obert Skye

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Quiet, Fellows

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

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• A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

  Anna Godbersen

  Husband, May, Waking

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Want, Bittersweet

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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