Top 78 Most Delightful Quotes
#1. Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#2. Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
Pat Conroy
#4. Oh! my dear Mr. Bennet," as she entered the room, "we have had a most delightful
Jane Austen
#5. The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.
Philip Johnson
#6. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Joseph Addison
#7. It is always a most delightful moment for me when people contact me via mail or approach me at game fairs and thank me for the many enjoyable hours I have brought them with my games.
Klaus Teuber
#8. 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
#9. Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.
Robert Southey
#10. 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
#11. Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
Epictetus
#12. 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
#13. Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall
#14. It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant.
R.K. Lilley
#15. Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.
Samuel Rogers
#16. Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says
What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love?
Anatole France
#17. When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
Mary Shelley
#18. Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
George Eliot
#19. The most delightful thing he's discovered about shooting someone is how ridiculously easy it is. Tying your shoes is harder.
Rick Yancey
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.
Helene Hanff
#24. It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.
Marjorie Hillis
#25. You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
Bill Bryson
#26. The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
#28. A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#29. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.
Douglas Wilson
#31. Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
Hugh Miller
#32. Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
#33. I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
Fanny Burney
#34. As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#35. I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.
Humphry Davy
#36. A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf
Harold Larwood
#37. Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens
#38. How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end ...
Susan Hale
#40. Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller
#41. You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
Oscar Wilde
#42. The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
Lewis Grizzard
#43. The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
Hilaire Belloc
#44. This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!
Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.
June Casagrande
#45. The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
Maxwell Maltz
#46. Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
Jan Struther
#47. Curiosity is the most delightful of all human characteristics
"I see. No men in her life then?"
-"Not unless you count Jack Daniels and Johnny Walkers
Kathleen Tessaro
#48. The most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.
Chretien De Troyes
#49. 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
#50. [The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.
Edward Gibbon
#51. The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.
Tina Ambani
#52. Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
Jason Silva
#53. To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.
Charles Dickens
#54. It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.
Stephen Fry
#55. At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
John Donne
#56. You're the most beautiful and delightful moon in my sky.
Debasish Mridha
#57. I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
Richard Thomas
#58. Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: ', with love from Momma.
Vincent Starrett
#59. Tulsi, beyond any perceivable clouds of skepticism, was the best living form of beauty known - the matchless delight, the most generous blessing granted to a human eyeball.
Pawan Mishra
#60. the most important element of delightful design is empathy.
Anonymous
#61. I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.
George Washington
#62. The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
Karl Lagerfeld
#63. Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature.
Anne Bronte
#64. Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.
Elliott Abrams
#65. Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
#66. 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 Dostoyevsky
#67. Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
Samuel Johnson
#68. Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.
Richard De Bury
#69. 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
#70. I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.
Marsha Thomason
#71. Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
Virginia Woolf
#72. Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
Honore De Balzac
#73. As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.
Nick Lowe
#74. 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
#75. The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).
Vladimir Arnold
#76. Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.
M.F.K. Fisher
#77. The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful ... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
Jean Patou
#78. I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
J.G. Holland
