Delightful Quotes - Page 20

• Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems; he would be an important figure in the history of gay writing and in the history of transatlantic literary relations even were his poetry not so good as it is. With his life as it was and his works as they are, he's an obvious candidate for a volume of retrospective and critical essays, and this one is first-rate.

  Stephen Burt

  Writing, Gay, Important

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• Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Life, Animal, Men

  "All the King's Men".

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• The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

  William McDonough

  Tree, Climate, Use

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• A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

  Harold Larwood

  Australia, Would Be, Deaf

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• It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

  Wilson Flagg

  Tree, Cheerful, Realizing

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• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Action, Indolence

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

  Oswald Chambers

  Taken, Upset, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.392, Discovery House

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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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• The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life Is, Surprise, Recognise

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• A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

  Joseph Addison

  Cheerful, Innocence, Attractive

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.153

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• All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

  Andre Maurois

  Discipline, Routine, Needs

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.126, SpiralPress

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• To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ignorance, Self, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

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• Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

  Diana Vreeland

  Gay, Glasses, Color

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• There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

  John Ray

  Men, Honor, Occupation

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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• With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the economic and social well-being of their families, communities, nations and the global community.

  Geeta Rao Gupta

  Journey, Civilization, Community

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• I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

  Charles Dickens

  Sea, House, Theatre

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• Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.

  Dorothy Draper

  Art, Pride, Acceptance

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• Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ass and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.

  S. Bear Bergman

  Girl, Cutting, Clothes

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• The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Common, Ifs

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.15, Prestwick House Inc

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• Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Description

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• A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

  W. G. Grace

  Effort, Healthy, Fellowship

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• Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

  Jen Lancaster

  Book, Cat, Taste

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• M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on the page. Stolen Magic has to be one of the most delightful reads of the year, a witty, finely crafted tale that enchants from beginning to end. As always, Putney's intelligent wordsmithery, scholarship, eye for detail, and ability to bring to life irresistible characters add up to enjoyment on every page. Fast-moving and fun!

  Elizabeth Haydon

  Witty, Fun, Moving

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• Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  Anne Carson

  Beauty, Running, Moving

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