Delightful Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Writing, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Firsts, Facts

  Samuel Johnson, Queen Victoria, Neil Munro (2014). “Journeys in Scotland: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, The Clyde: River and Firth”, p.37, Palimpsest Book Production Limited

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• The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Complacency, Vices

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• One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

  Zhou Enlai

  Memories, Historical, Delightful Things

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• In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Nam identifies in this book, but he describes them in a way that is as original as it is delightful to read. All those who have power-or want it-should read this book.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Book, Hands, President

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• Just need to rave for a moment about the scrubbing cleanser...I have only ever found one (chemical filled) product that REALLY cleans my shower/tub, until now. The Ava Anderson scrubbing cleanser is amazing! Cleans the toughest dirty spots and smells absolutely delightful. LOVE IT!

  LIZ

  Dirty, Smell, Needs

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• I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Book, Reading

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  Nathan Rabin

  Stars, Valentine, Voice

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• There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will.

  Anne Roe

  Law, Numbers, Example

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• There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Paris, Mourning

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• The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

  John Powell

  Christian, Exercise, Genius

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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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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• The world is crammed with delightful things

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Delightful Things

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.66, Virginia Woolf

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• Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Men, Thank God

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• It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, Space, Tourists

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Distance, Journey

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• Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein and his colleagues. By avoiding mathematics, Stone makes his book accessible to general readers, but even physicists who are well versed in Einstein and his physics are likely to find new insights into the most remarkable mind of the modern era.

  Daniel Kleppner

  Book, Historical, Mind

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• Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  "Exclusive: Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate". Interview with Danielle Kourtesis, flavorwire.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Teenage, Training, Witch

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• I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.

  Jools Holland

  Queens, Couple, Writing

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• Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences.

  Peter McWilliams

  Sex, Mean, Successful

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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