Delightful Quotes - Page 19

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life Is, Surprise, Recognise

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• I guess some of the most delightful moments of my teenage years were when I was trying not just to educate myself but trying to educate others. And I could see how the lives of children could be transformed in that.

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Teenage, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

  John Banville

  Book, Crime Novels, Protagonists

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• For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Warrior, Challenges

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

  Emile Durkheim

  Christian, Country, Thinking

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.

  Richie Benaud

  Beach, Garden, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Different, Mysterious, Mathematics

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• So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Impact

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful.  I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Beautiful, Home, Perfect

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• It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

  Jann Wenner

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few of its many pleasures. Amanda Craig has created a hot shimmery climate in which a cast of old friends, quirky family members and naughty children who make love potions come to know themselves and their hearts. A delightful brew.

  Jane Hamilton

  Children, Heart, Naughty

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• 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

  Silly, Apology, Mind

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.

  David Zippel

  Perfect, Gentleman, Superb

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• "Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Running, Selfish

  Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

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• I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Lost Youth, Ideas

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237

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• You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

  Pema Chodron

  Inner Strength, Difficult, Totality

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Delight, Pleasure

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• They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Stupid, Butterfly

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• No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Use, Unnecessary

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• Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

  James Boswell

  Hero, Character, Air

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

  Hannah More

  People, Physicians, Wonder

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.317

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• If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

  David Hume

  Beauty, Reflection, Mind

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• Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Friendship, Hands, Guests

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• Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reading, Beneficial

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• Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ambition, Mind

  "Chapter 8: Lines: Untitled", www.theguardian.com. November 14, 1985.

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