Delightful Quotes - Page 14

• In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Real, Ignorance, Diversity

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

  Paul Zindel

  Cards, Facts, Hips

  Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”

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• Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.

  Kathy Reichs

  Writing, Hygiene, It Takes A Village

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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• But you helped me and Arik. Why would you do that if you really feel that way? (Geary) What can I say? It’s so much more enjoyable to snatch victory from the hands of the gullible. You guys make the most delightful sound of agony when you’re betrayed. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Agony, Guy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is...

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Prejudice, Passionate

  "The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chödrön, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it." "Yes," Zia said. "Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?

  Rick Riordan

  Egypt, Two, Textbooks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Hands, Sigh Of Relief, Promise

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.42, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fall, Dark, Night

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• When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

  Muriel Barbery

  Memories, Enchantment, Needs

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.96, Gallic Books

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• Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sleep, Men, Humanity

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• The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

  Glen Duncan

  Hands, Moved On, Flesh

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.62, Canongate Books

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• These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

  Nella Larsen

  Spiritual, Laughter, Pride

  Nella Larsen (2013). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Comfort, World

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Attitude, Air, Expression

  Oscar Wilde (2017). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.185

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• I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Modern Life, Mysterious, Secrecy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Disappointment, Real, Reading

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books

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• It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

  Galileo Galilei

  Beautiful, Moon, Sight

  Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler (2016). “The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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• It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Cities, San Francisco

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

  Idries Shah

  May, Wonderful, Absence

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.18, Octagon Press Ltd

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• 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

  Eye, Giving, Black

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• I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Taken, Healthy

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• Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teeth, Sunny, Disposition

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

  Agatha Christie

  Secret, Sin, Caps

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Imagination, Ridiculous

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.262, Ageless Reads

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