Delightful Quotes - Page 7

• A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

  Epicurus

  Giving, Earth, Fertility

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• Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Pastime, Expenses

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.639, e-artnow

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• A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

  Mary Oliver

  Ideas, Afternoon, May

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Girl, Laughter, Sound

  Thomas De Quincey (1853). “De Quincey's works”, p.85

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Good Art, Known

  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.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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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• It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Reality, Ideas

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• There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Good Marriage, Matrimony

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• Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

  Richard Steele

  Passion, Love Is, Sorrow

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.80

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• What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

  Nash Buckingham

  Fishing, Trout, Emotion

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• Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, Receiving, Compliment

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Powerful, Challenges, Looks

  Source: www.mbacrystalball.com

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Reading, Optimistic

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

  A. C. Bradley

  Imagination, Research, Easy

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Littles, Life Is

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• Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

  Edith Evans

  People, Awful, Actresses

  "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

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• A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grateful, Men, Favors

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• Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

  Seneca the Younger

  Aging, Life Is, Slopes

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• Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Yesterday, Alive

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• I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

  William McDonough

  Thinking, Expression, Diversity

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• [Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete Savages. But I have to say, nobody ever talked about it, and he never brought any of that to work. He was just delightful, and I had a great time.

  Keith Carradine

  Passion, Savages, Christ

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

  Ian Bogost

  Goal, Television, Laundry

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything.

  Ian Bogost

  Mean, Able, Path

  Source: app.longform.org

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• The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Overcoming, Overcoming Fear

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “On Education”, p.65, Routledge

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• 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.

  Joshua Malina

  Men, Thinking, Hurtful

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